Earthing Up
Earth up growing greens and celery. Use a good insecticide to counteract leaf-miner. Draw earth away from onions to allow them to swell out. Three good crops of weeds in a......
Reverting To The Wild
Walking home, I met Dick, who told me that his dog had once gone wild to have her pups and he had had to bring the family back to civilised surroundings. My grandfather had a......
Slate Fences Slate Fences Are Unlikely To Be Found Anywhere
but in a slate- quarrying district. From the look of them they are an old thing, and yet so effective that I wonder they have not been exported. The fences vary a little in......
The Poplar Tree
Few birds seem to trust the poplar tree in this area. Sometimes a thrush or a blackbird makes use of the lower branches, but for the rest the poplar tree is hardly ever the......
Country Life
As I expected earlier in the year, it has turned - put to be, a great season for rabbits in this locality. Fields that never had them before, so long as I can remember, have......