I am not really a gardener. I’m a sort of gardener, a ‘whatever’ gardener. I simply don’t have the time and energy to do much. Nevertheless, when I had a house built on a small block of grassed clay soil, I decided to try. After decades of shrivelling any plant I was supposed to care for, I was starting from scratch in more ways than one. My aims in developing my scratch patch were to improve the soil and sequester carbon on a small scale, creating a habitat to feed myself and others, including other species. These intentions completely ignored […]