Well, feeling rather weird at the moment as I’m visiting my folks back in South Wales.  It’s lovely to be with family and friends but I am having difficulty relaxing my ‘save everything’ habits.   It’s the little things I’m really noticing. My folks are lucky having a 1/2 acre garden so do grow some of their [...]

A word of warning – if you install a basic compost loo its good if its not upstairs and imperative that you have a lid which can be properly secured.  I only mention this as I had a near miss with our bucket of poo this morning. Coming downstairs with a large bucket of human faeces, [...]

Well its been steadily heading towards winter for a while now… The hunters are about, the fire is being lit (evenings only lets not panic just yet!) and the nights drawing in.  Never-mind though, have been busy getting ready for the Spring harvest.  We’ve been preparing the veg plots – removing weeds (it really does [...]

You really can never have too much compost… One of the first jobs we tackled here was the creation of ‘compost corner’.  The soil at our finca is better than much in Spain, we were lucky that previous owners had kept donkeys and grown crops before us so the soil had been improved historically.  We [...]

Manure is a veggie grower’s best friend for sure but sometimes you really can have too much of the good stuff! Our soil is fine, stony and very shallow so we’ve really made an effort to improve it.  Brilliantly when we bought the finca we inherited a huge pile of chicken manure.  Now some people [...]