Garden Diary, 11 January 2009

The garden is progressing well as per this time of year. See the photos for more details.

Garden Diary, 3 February 2009

A few weeks on from the last entry and not much new to report, except that the corn is growing well and we lost a branch off the gala.

Garden Diary, 2 December 2008

It's been a very good spring so far, lots of sun, probably not as much rain as I would have liked but we've been watering a lot to make up for it.

All the veges are in now and making good progress. This year we have: spuds, corn, peas, onions, lettuce, shallots, celery, tomatoes, asparagus, carrots, garlic. The fruit trees this year seem to be cropping really well, possibly because of the wet winter, Josh tells me :-) The apricot has the first crop in it's five years of existence and even Madeline's peach tree has a few peaches on it !

Too Many People

It strikes me that the vast majority of our problems on this planet stem from one thing: there are just too many people on it. Perhaps the single most important long term solution to our environmental woes is to reduce the world's population, and this is something we can all act on.

Some things we can do:

• Don't have any more than two children
• Lobby political parties to restrict immigration to maintain zero population growth
• Contribute to contraception programmes in third-world countries

The Green Party's population policy is a good start ...