It's essential to sow seeds at the right time of year to ensure healthy plants and a big crop. Visit your grow guides for the specific sowing methods you need to use for each type of veg.
Friday, 26 February 2010
Vegetable Growing Calendar
http://www.seedtoplate.co.uk/vegetable_sowing_calendar/
It's essential to sow seeds at the right time of year to ensure healthy plants and a big crop. Visit your grow guides for the specific sowing methods you need to use for each type of veg.
It's essential to sow seeds at the right time of year to ensure healthy plants and a big crop. Visit your grow guides for the specific sowing methods you need to use for each type of veg.
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Big business leaves big forest footprints
Consumers around the globe are not aware that they are "eating" rainforests, says Andrew Mitchell. In this week's Green Room, he explains how many every-day purchases are driving the destruction of the vital tropical ecosystems.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8516931.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8516931.stm
Monday, 22 February 2010
Sustain
Sustain advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture.
http://www.sustainweb.org/
http://www.sustainweb.org/
Time to think small on climate change
Copenhagen's failure to deliver a legally binding deal has created an opportunity for individuals to fill the void left by politicians, says Sir David King. In this week's Green Room, he explains how small-scale projects can move the world towards a low carbon future.
Fleeting Moments
"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." - The History Boys, Alan Bennett
Insomnia
Have been reading "On Guerrilla Gardening" by Richard Reynolds. This is going to be very difficult to implement within the university due its illegality. Hopefully we'll be able to get permission from a couple of colleges to cultivate some neglected land of theirs. Reynolds's book is "A handbook for gardening without boundaries." Unfortunately for this project, Oxford University likes its boundaries. Ideally, the project should be up and running by the end of Trinity in time for all the freshers of 2010/2011.
"The battle is gathering pace. Most people own no land. Most of us live in cities and have no garden of our own. We demand more from this planet than it has the space and resources to offer. Guerrilla gardening is a battle for resources, a battle against scarcity of land, environmental abuse and wasted opportunities. It is also a fight for freedom of expression and for community cohesion. It is a battle in which bullets are replaced with flowers (most of the time)." - RR
"The battle is gathering pace. Most people own no land. Most of us live in cities and have no garden of our own. We demand more from this planet than it has the space and resources to offer. Guerrilla gardening is a battle for resources, a battle against scarcity of land, environmental abuse and wasted opportunities. It is also a fight for freedom of expression and for community cohesion. It is a battle in which bullets are replaced with flowers (most of the time)." - RR
The birds have started waking up.
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