by Jane Cobbald | Jan 6, 2019 | Organic growing, Products
My 15-year-old Mira Trowel disappeared in the garden last spring. I couldn’t find it anywhere. And this afternoon, there it was, stuck in a flowerbed where I had left it. The leaves had died back to expose it. The blade and handle (which was oiled every year)...
by Jane Cobbald | Aug 31, 2018 | Organic growing
Made in an afternoon: a new raised bed using the no-dig method. Partner Nigel made the timber frame and laid it on the lawn. I sorted out some cardboard that the tools had arrived in and laid it inside the rectangle, covering the grass. Then with the Libra Shovel and...
by Jane Cobbald | Apr 25, 2018 | Organic growing
Slugs used to devastate pretty well all of the young plants in our garden. Since we have used the bronze tools we don’t worry about them any more. Here is some spinach I transplanted early last week, in a space between the overwintered onions. No protection...
by Jane Cobbald | Dec 29, 2016 | Organic growing
Charles Dowding has long been a champion of our tools (as well as championing organic growing and no-dig vegetable growing). His latest book has just been published. More info here.
by Jane Cobbald | Apr 5, 2016 | Organic growing, Products
Here are some of the Maia Dibbers. The one nearest the front is made of apple wood. A neighbour of PKS in Austria contacted them to ask if they wanted the wood from an apple tree they were about to cut down. Other handles are oak, ash and beech, all...
by Jane Cobbald | Nov 9, 2014 | Hints and tips, Organic growing, Ponders
A paragraph from our autumn newsletter: “Implementations will be fourteen years old next year. No signs yet of a turbulent adolescence. In fact, from our experience so far, we wonder if we can propose a new business model. Viktor Schauberger’s daughter-in-law,...