THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Hand Held Hoe
What is this one? The question people ask me the most at my talks… It is a good question. What kind …
Bird Feeder
Heartened and cheered to discover the British public love to help the birds! We discovered these bird feeders recently and thought – you know what, we need to give these a go. They are remanufactured from black plastic plant pots, the ones you get in every single damn nursery, shop, hardware store and garden centre going… the same ones that cannot be recycled. You only have two options with where to get rid of them when you have removed your plant from the pot – either reuse the pot until it breaks, or send it to be crushed up …
Compost = “To Place Together”
Looking online for where the word compost comes from, we found it originates in ‘composite’. ‘Com’ = together ‘Ponere’ – to place To place together. The perfect word for compost, the black gold of the garden. Quick Modern Mint tip for making compost: Place together a 50/50 mixture of green garden arisings (grass, flowers, vegetable peelings, stems) and brown, dry arisings (woody stems, cardboard, leaves, coffee grounds.) No cooked foods as it encourages rats. Occasionally turn this heap with a fork or spade. Leave for enough time and you will have compost to add back onto your garden. …
Where Have all the Herbicide Loving Gardeners Gone?
We recently read a wonderful essay by comedian Stewart Lee, who tried to answer the question ‘Where have all the right wing comedians gone?’ A fantastic question, and one that has inspired us to ask something similar – where have all the herbicide loving gardeners gone? (For those of you interested in finding out where all the right wing comedians are, Stewart Lee comes to the conclusion you cannot be a clown, a fool, without being at the bottom of the societal rung. How can you show the foibles of the worker if you are the Boss? You can’t, because …