Can Britain Feed Itself?

https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/can-britain-feed-itself
https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/sites/default/files/can_britain_feed_itself.pdf (with tables referred to in main text)

Food self-sufficiency: 1975 versus 2009 (of course the urban population has gone up even further since then). ( Read more... )

Garlic

I had another head of garlic sprouting in the fridge, so I tried planting up a couple of cloves to see what would happen if it actually got to overwinter for once!

I should probably be planting up my narcissus bulbs rather than searching for them in the pots that I am currently busy emptying of plants that are dying back (I was convinced that the blue Swan River daisy pot had originally contained narcissi before they self-seeded themselves in it, but I couldn't find even the rotted remnants of the bulbs I was expecting...)