Hello folks. Eleri and I have returned to near my home town of Abergavenny after nearly thirty years living under trees in the London hinterland (don't miss that commute!). I mention the trees (150 foot pines) because very little would grow underneath them. Now we've got 3 acres of grassy meadow and about an acre of garden. And a kind of retirement that doesn't involve much sitting down.
We've been here a year, and in that time we've done lots on the house. We've also done a bit of growing, swapped meadow hay for enough wood for the winter and laid a fair amount of plastic down for mulching. We've bought some seeds from Real Seed Company and read Charles Dowding's book on no-dig gardening and want to get more serious about this land stuff.
Dave and Eleri Straker