Grow your own Fruit 

Strawberries love leaf mould

                                                                                                                                                                    Growing your own fruit and veg is easy and fun. By growing your own you get to taste sun ripened fruit, quite a different experience from their supermarket counterpart. Furthermore, you can avoid the use of toxic chemicals which are necessitated by large-scale monoculture, but not by small scale local enterprise. The strawberries in the picture are being mulched with leaf mould (rotted down autumn leaves) this is their only fertility requirement so that the mulch will not only suppress weeds but as it slowly breaks down will provide a continuous supply of nourishment.

In the back ground is a netted frame to protect our blackcurrants grapes gooseberry and goji berries from birds.