Growing organically

jonewer

http://www.bernwodefruittrees.co.uk/

Oustanding collection of apples, pears, cherries, plums & gages, mulberries, qunices, figs, vines, currants etc.

Edwardia

Today I took the seeds from 9 passionflower fruits and sowed them in seed compost, sticking them in an unheated greenhouse and now I cross my fingers

Edwardia

Giving this a bump as evidently a thread on organic gardening got hijacked by weedkillers.. well organic gardener refugees welcome here and others can just go plonk Roundup on their own gardens

I went out in garden in dark after argument with OH years ago and then realised I had sprayed my entire garden with the stuff instead of bug killer, spent 2 hrs hosing it down and only lost seedlings phew !:o

Now, I eat and garden organically

Edwardia

Oxfam has two books on organic gardening for a bargain 1.49 each in the sale !

Link for one of them

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/books/home-and-garden/organic-gardening-918334

Edwardia

http://www.shop.dailystar.co.uk/i-jj-exp369-nad/orgro--100-organic/

Orgro organic fertiliser on offer at Daily Star

Kirri

^ Could do with some of that..

Conditions better for organic gardening this year, have had success with most things. Haven't even seen blight yet and little slug damage compared to last year.

Sad to see that around my plot there are still more people spraying than not, either for weeds or insects.

I had raspberries from an organic delivery company recently that appeared to have raspberry beetle damage - they didn't comment on whether it was that but I assumed that commercial organic growers would have a better control of it than I do - obviously not!

Kirri

Household garden products containing neonicotinoids

http://www.soilassociation.org/wildlife/bees/householdpesticides