Premises and a bus!!

We are happy to announce that we are currently in the frame for both a premises and a converted double decker bus to move our project on to the next stage. Both are really great and ideal for our project. We are pursuing both avenues and will keep you informed. Watch this space.

It never rains but it pours!

As you know we are in the market for a premises or a bus, or both, to take our project to the next level. We have missed out on several buses in the last six months however we now find ourselves in the running for a bus and a premises at the same time! We don't want to get over excited or set our heart on anything BUT nonetheless it is exciting! Watch this space!

Water helps

I learned an important lesson this week. Plants grow better when you water them regularly! Enough said.

Slugs breach defences

At 7.30am today a slug and a snail were found to have breached the purple sprouting broccoli defences. They scaled a 9inch wall, traversed a straw moat and ignored the organic slug pellets to reach the green vegetables. I arrived just in time, as they were just about to start munching on my greens!

I did not kill them. I never do. I simply send them on a carbon emission free flight into next doors garden which can only be described as a jungle but is the most popular holiday destination for all my garden intruders.

Vive la broccoli!

Slug Pellets commissioned!

The food growing saga continues. The purple sprouting broccoli have left the relative safety of their pots and are now in the ground surrounded by organic slug pellets. I am happy to report that they have survived for 5 days without being eaten by anything else. I am conducting daily surveillance and things are looking good but will I keep this up for a year? Who knows.

A thought struck me the other day. You spend a whole year nurturing your broccoli, seeing it through the rough times until it's finally ready to be eaten and then it takes just 5 minutes to shovel it down your throat. I am still trying to get my head round this. Surely broccoli deserves the status of caviar.

Another thought struck me. Mother Earth spends a year fuelling the broccoli with nutrients and goodness and then some people spend 15 minutes boiling the living day lights out of it. What a waste. I am going to eat mine raw.