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Quest for the Good Life Aims

Fruit & Vegetables

Planning the veg garden

Crop Rotation

Orchard Fruits

Currants

Vegetables

Potatoes

Planting calendar

Natural fertilisers

Livestock

Chickens for eggs

Breeding chickens - Light Sussex

Keeping Rabbits

Quail

Bee Keeping

Setting Up

Parts of the hive

Plants for bees

Ouir bee garden

Varroa Mites

Honey Bee Anatomy

Wildlife Habitat

Planting Hedges

Trees in Hedges

Wildlife Pond

The Birds & the Bees

Preserving

Jam making

Chutney making

Home Made Food

Make your own butter

Beer, Wine & Cider

Beer Making

Wine Making

Heating with wood

Victorian Fireplace

Our Philosophy

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Extra bits

The Nitrogen Cycle

Plant Propagator

inputs and outputs

About Us

 

Last updated

05 February 2012

Quest for the Good Life

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Grow your own food

Welcome to our Extra bits pages

 

This section simply serves as a directory of information, linked to growing your own activities.  It should be informative and useful.

 

Listed below is an index to articles, other web sites and features that you might finding relevant:-

 

The Nitrogen CycleNitrogen Cycle

You may have touched on this in school biology lessons and wondered what’s that all about, but it is fundamental to nitrogen being continually re-used and most importantly, from the gardeners point of view, made available to plants.  Go to our Nitrogen cycle page

 

 

 

Home made plant propagatorMake yourself a mini greenhouse

It’s nice to have a posh new greenhouse, made from wood or metal.  But this is not one of those!  Instead the idea here is to be frugal, practical and productive.  Go to our plant propagator page

 

 

 

 

 

Plants are part of the energy flowInputs & Outputs

Think of how the energy flows in your garden.  What do you put in, what do you take out.  What’s the balance? Inputs/Outputs page