Good gardening is a long-term affair. Synthetic fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides may give you a quick-fix, but only serve to create an environment with less life in your soil and in your garden. It becomes dependent on externally applied chemicals and is less able to keep going if you can’t attend to it for a while.

Putting back what you take out is not only cost effective, but will condition the earth, nurture insects and birds, and create strong, more resistant growth in your plants; thus making your investment worthwhile.

In this part of my web site, I hope to show how to create a garden, suited to your needs, and one you can be sure of maintaining within your capabilities.