Tadpoles!

Looks like some of our tadpoles have made it. The water in our mini-pond looks quite clear. Needs a bit of topping up with rain water when it gets hot. So far so good. For those who've just tuned in to this blog, here are the posts which describe how we constructed it (and where we got the idea from).

You remember the very first post on this blog? 'Making life more beautiful'. It showed something I look at every day - my window box - in summer.

Well, I'm quite proud of the early spring version too. My Christmas Roses have finally started to come into flower. I'm hoping this is going to be an easy windowbox that saves me time, too as these plants could happily stay in there all year round and still look presentable. Giving me more time to keep up food production on the allotment.

I've found a good link with tips on how to care for and propagate Christmas Roses. Do comment and tell me how yours are getting on...

New dedicated international organic page at Helium

Big News. Karyn Sparks has just finished building a Certified Organics Zone at Helium and has placed my article "Assessing the success of the organic food movement" on there.

Helium is a web-based writing community which is attracting a huge global audience right now. Hope readers like it and thanks Karyn. It is really good to know that we're a global movement!