Peter Norris

  1. Planting leeks takes the time it takes

    Planting leeks takes the time it takes

    Happiness for the busy self-sufficient is a day without sun. Then there is finally the possibility that you can have the first 150 autumn spores planted. Later it will hopefully be just as good weather so roughly the same number of winter leeks...

  2. Overwintering carrots with time confusion

    Overwintering carrots with time confusion

    In the middle of October last year, I sowed carrots in a manure bench - an attempt that I hardly believed in myself, but there was nothing to lose, as the bench still had to be sown with carrots the following March. Almost 2 months later - in...

  3. Germination of lettuce seeds in refrigerator

    Germination of lettuce seeds in refrigerator

    It is not to make lettuce sprout in this heat, so the seeds must go for a walk in the fridge. Another damp coffee filter is placed over, which is airtight with plastic film around, and then into the cold for 3-4 days. When you can see...

  4. Circular economy at garden level

    Circular economy at garden level

    The broccoli here was sown in September, overwintered in pots in the greenhouse and planted in the manure bank in March. The last few years I have been experimenting with planting quite densely - as many as 13 plants of 1 m2. It still gives...

  5. Compost production

    Compost production

    With a half-sized kitchen garden on an ordinary residential plot, you easily end up in a chronic deficit of material for the compost box. Especially in the summer, when most of the green waste ends up with the hens, at the same time as the...

  6. White thread in bulbous plants

    White thread in bulbous plants

    If you observe garlic or onions, which are already yellowing and withering, there is a good chance that they are attacked by the fungal disease white rot. One can easily ascertain this by digging up a plant: often they are already quite...