The Sun has got His Easter Bonnet on! As everyone tucks into their chocolate eggs, and proud children display their handmade bonnets, we’ve realised that a chicken is afforded with a sense of fame at this time of the year. The tiny fluffy craft chicks that adorn each Easter cake litter supermarket shelves making us […]
Category Archives: Gardens for Kids
Take a Tip From Tom’s Midnight Garden
Those of you that have been following my Manor House escapades will understand the huge task that faces me on a weekend as I try to bring the gardens back to their former glory. With six feet deep borders of nettles, brambles and poison ivy, it’s easy to become disheartened as I quite simply don’t […]
Home Made Composts for Your Garden (Warning- it’s a bit yucky!)
By Martina Mercer There are many different forms of homemade compost out there, and many ways in which you can take unwanted rubbish and turn it into a fertilizer or compost for your plants. However, which does what, and what compost and fertilizer is best for your plot? Whether you garden on a balcony from a […]
A Realist’s Look at Keeping Livestock
For the majority of us that regularly tend to our vegetable patch or spend our spare minutes in the garden there comes a time when we decide we want to share it with something else. It seems that no sooner have we perfected the lawn and trimmed planted the borders that we feel the need […]
The Best Shops for Gifts for Young Gardeners
We have put together a guide on buying gifts for young gardeners. Below are our favourite stores for finding the gift that will keep your loved ones big and small entertained in the great outdoors. The Eden Project The Eden Project has a wide range of gifts for those kids that love the great outdoors. […]
The Proper Polish Bantams
The Proper Polish Bantams The smallest of the bantam family in terms of body size, The Polish Bantams have a different look to many other varieties due to their array of different styles of top knots. History There’s still quite a lot of debate about the origin of the Polish Bantam, however one thing has […]
The Secrets of the Silkie Bantam
The Secrets of the Silkie Bantam! A noble bantam the Silkie is a fantastic addition to any brood of chickens. In a variety of colours, the Silkie will strut proudly across any paddock giving a fabulous display of their fashionable feathers. With fluffy feet and tiny beak the Silkie Bantam could be mistaken for being […]
Give Your Bantams a New Year Makeover with Wiggly Wigglers
Give Your Bantams a New Year Makeover with Diatoms! Our Bantams are having a lovely winter, with mild conditions affording them a cosy home and even some time on the paddocks. However the mild conditions as every poultry owner and gardener know bring other concerns that have to be considered. Mild but Menacing! Although we’re […]
Wellchild at the Chelsea Flower Show
Chelsea charity garden highlights importance of living sensory spaces for seriously ill children and young people This year’s Chelsea Flower Show will host an inspiring garden created to highlight the work of WellChild, a national children’s charity, and the important role gardens and outside spaces play in support to seriously ill children and young people. […]