I saw this post on the RHS forum about free used poultry bedding, straw and sawdust based. This stuff is dynamite for your garden after a year on the compost. If you live in the Wells area, have a look.

Over the years, we have often heard a story very similar to this one: a first time fruit tree owner was delighted at the sight of their trees coming into maturity, flowering beautifully and being courted by all manner of bees and butterflies before becoming weighed down with piles of slowly but surely swelling fruit.

Tags: Fruit trees

I’ll sort of add to this as one of us finds a blog we like.

Bad news first – it is written in the USA and it concentrates on North American trees and things woody. The author is Genevieve Netz who sounds as if she has been in love with trees for years.