11th May 2016 - Time in the Garden

This weekend we had glorious weather but unfortunately Mr L went off mountain biking with his pal and so I was left at home with the Little L's.  As usual they didn't want to go to the plot and were having water fights in the street with their friends.  I therefore decided to spend some time getting my garden straight(ish).  

I had a corner of the garden next to the greenhouse that was completely neglected - it gets sun first thing in the morning but then it's pretty shady for the rest of the day.  I decided that I wanted to brighten it up and took the kids off to the garden centre.  I loved wandering around looking at lots of different varieties of plants but the whole time the Littlest L's complained that they were hot and bored - grrrrrr!

I also went down to Aldi and bought their wooden tiles to do a mini deck and I covered the area with weed membrane.  I laid the tiles which were surprisingly easy to do and real wood; which I was impressed with!  I'd also bought a fountain from QVC which is battery operated so can be used even when it's not bright sunshine (brilliant for that corner of the garden).  I got a really good bargain (when it was on a "one time only" price which saved me nearly £30)

http://www.qvcuk.com/Bernini-Florentina-All-Weather-Rechargeable-Water-Fountain.product.506454.html?upsh=1

I've also ordered a garden mirror to go into the gap in the ivy, which I'm hoping will look great when it arrives.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00TBE7WYS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I've also used Richard Jackson's container magic, root booster and all season feed in all of my pots.  I love container magic, it has water storage crystals to reduce the need for watering (super important in hanging baskets especially), a controlled release booster food to help establish plants and a mycorrhizal fungi for stronger growth.  I have used it in every pot I've planted for a few years and it definitely helps.  I also like the all season feed because whilst I do use my flower power (Richard Jackson's plant food)  I don't always manage to do it as regularly as I should and if I am using the all season feed then I don't worry too much if I miss one!  The root booster helps to build stronger roots to maximise plant growth and saves nutrients.  I love Richard Jackson's products, some people are put off by the fact that you can only buy from QVC but I honestly haven't found better products anywhere else.  I have not found anything from his range yet that is less than it says on the packaging.  

http://www.qvcuk.com/CatalogSearch?langId=-2&storeId=10252&catalogId=10152&sc=SRCH&keyword=richard+jackson

Overall I'm really pleased with this little corner of my garden, but now I've done that I want to get the rest of the garden sorted before the summer comes properly (fingers crossed) and we are spending more time out there (hopefully) - watch this space...

2nd May 2016 - Mayday Bank Holiday

Traditionally the bank holiday at the start of May is a weekend when lots of gardening is done, whether it's getting the garden in good shape for the summer or planting out your potatoes and veg in the plot - this year however it was snowing in the week up to the weekend and the weather was pretty horrible all over the weekend.  In fact, on Saturday and Sunday Mr L and I were the only ones at the site!

I think I mentioned last weekend that Mr L badly cut his finger and we spent Sunday morning at the hospital so we didn't get as much done as we wanted to; as a result there were loads of jobs that he'd wanted to finish last Sunday that he did on Saturday and then on Sunday we managed to swap the old garden arch for a lovely wooden one I bought from B&M.  It's called a twilight arch and one of the things I really liked about it was that the width was adjustable.  As you can see from my photo there is an overhang of the top part to my sides but I think it still looks lovely and I've already got two clematis climbing up each side - I've also added some ladybird solar lights for Littlest L because she chose them and they've been in the shed for weeks whilst I couldn't decide what to do with them!

http://www.bmstores.co.uk/products/twilight-arch-2-13m-291189

I was impressed with how easily it all went together - Mr L did add extra screws to the uprights holding it to the top (2 on the inside as directed with an extra 2 on the outside for more stability) and he added an extra screw to the middle of the trellis to hold it onto the uprights.  I also bought some spikes to hammer into the ground so that the arch was very secure and not in a hole (which would rot the bottom).  They were reasonably priced (just over £7) with 5% off if you bought 3 or more.  I did have a little struggle with delivery (they said on the confirmation it would be delivered on Wednesday but when it didn't come they said it was 3-5 working days, which was up to the following Monday); I chased on the Tuesday when they still didn't arrive and they immediately resent them on next day delivery and I got them on Wednesday.  Whilst it was 1 week later than I'd wanted it wasn't the end of the world because Mr L wasn't able to do them the weekend before with his hand anyway - if you do order them though I would recommend ensuring you have a good week before you need them to be sure of getting them in time for your project.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351311891020?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

In addition to it being another job that I'd wanted to get done it also means that the shed is being slowly but surely cleared out of the boxes and wood so I can work in there again!  Mr L also did some more work on my polytunnel.  Once the frame was up I realised what a mistake I'd made not buying the legs for the staging.  I called First Tunnels and they immediately sent me a set out, with free p&p because they could see how much I'd already spent with them!  I ordered them on the Saturday afternoon and they came on Tuesday so once again brilliant service all around!  My plot is on a slight slope and so they legs (to keep them level) are actually on bricks which looks really funny!  I have decided that I'd rather have it like that than make the staging lower though so that I'm not having to bend while I'm working; which will hurt my back.  I will be making a photo diary of the polytunnel construction separately to my normal photos so keep an eye out for that one. :-)

I did put some potatoes out last week and then we had snow!  I was worried about frost damage, although hopefully we won't have any more snow and frost now and so I've experimented with a couple of different covers.  On my Maris Piper's I went fairly traditional and covered them with a fleece; it's not a thick fleece but hopefully it will help to keep the soil warm and the frost off if we do get any more wintry weather.  I've also tried covering my King Edward's with a thick layer of leaves.  We have a huge leaf pile that the council drops off in a communal area and as a free resource I just thought it would be a nice organic way to protect any new shoots coming up - they were also light enough for Littlest L to happily bring up 3 wheelbarrow loads on her own which nicely covered the whole bed!

I also managed to get my strawberry bed covered with netting.  You will have seen last week that I secured my hoops that I'd got from First Tunnels as well as a piece of blue MDPE pipe in the middle.  I decided to buy a better quality netting that is UV stabilised and rot proof.  The idea being that they can be used over and over again with a life expectancy of 7-10 years.  It was therefore significantly more expensive at just under £22, than the green pea netting which is used once and throw away, but if it does last for 10 years then that's £2.20 per year and therefore works out to a similar price to the throw away stuff but surely better for the environment.  The one I got was bigger than I needed and so once I've secured it properly (I've ordered some clips that I'll say more about when they come and I've had a chance to use them) I can cut off the excess and use it either over my pond to protect from falling leaves or for my peas to grown up if the experiment with the sweetcorn doesn't work.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00722RVXI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I spent most of my time today in the greenhouse at home getting a lot of my seeds in that I either won't be buying plug plants for or that I just haven't got around to doing yet.  One of my biggest problems with growing in the greenhouse is that when I work away from home I can't rely on the family to remember to water everything (or to be fair when I work long hours and I simply forget!)  I usually pop my seed pots into gravel trays and keep them topped up with water.  The problem with that is that bottom of the pots are constantly submerged in water and that's not always a good thing!  I went along to Homebase to buy more gravel trays and come across capillary matting kits.  They were £10 each (and I bought 2) but the gravel trays were £7 each and I needed at least 4 so the matting was better value and hopefully will work better.  Essentially you lay the plastic sheet with the matting on top and put the wick in between the 2.  Then you lay the wick into a reservoir (I used my gravel trays - 1 at each end) and fill them with water.  You water the matting to start with and then all you need to do is keep the reservoirs filled.  I'm hoping that all of my seedlings will therefore be kept watered until they're potted on and I'll be looking at whether I can use it to also keep my tomatoes watered all summer. :-D

The final job I did this weekend was getting the weed membrane down at my entrance all the way to the strawberry bed.  I had quite a few perennial weeds making an appearance near my pond and some closer to the strawberry bed - the middle bit where everyone walks was still looking very bare but I want it to stay that way and therefore I felt it was important to get the membrane down to keep it clear.  I lifted most of the rocks around the pond to tuck the liner underneath which hopefully will keep it secure but also means little weeds won't find their way out of the edges.  My plan is to get plenty of wood chips from our local tree surgeon who lets us have it for free and cover all of my paths.  Next weekend Mr L will be off mountain biking so I'm going to concentrate on getting the rest of the weed membrane down that I need and then when he's back we can get the final beds in place and the chippings down. 

Hopefully we'll have a warmer week - happy gardening everyone!

24th April 2016 - Catching Up

It's been a few weeks since I last posted, not because I haven't been to the plot but because I've just been busy with work and home and by the time I get to the end of the day on Sunday (when I normally post) I'm literally just falling asleep.

Anyway, in the last couple of weeks loads of things have been happening down on the plot.  I managed to eventually tidy my shed (it's a tip again now!) I bought a shelving unit from Ikea which is perfectly serviceable and houses the majority of my bits and pieces.  I put up my hooks so that I could hang my tools and that means that I can clear the majority of the floor space and now I can use my shed both for sitting in and hiding from the rain and also for pottering about.  I've been using the table for a big bucket of water with my canna lily in because it wasn't enjoying the cold mornings; when I took it out of the pond I hadn't realised that there was a tadpole hiding in the stones so I had to fish that out and pop it back in the pond - oops!

I also had a think about how I would mark my plants; for the last few years I've just used the white plastic tags that you get from the supermarket.  The problem with them is that they're often too small; they get lost and often by the end of the season when you're harvesting you can't read what's on them any more!  I'm not the most artistic of people so I wasn't sure about drawing/painting things but I am good with writing so I decided to buy some wooden spoons (3 for £1 from the poundshop) and using a sharpie I've just written the name of the plant and then varnished them - I'm really pleased with the result!

The frogspawn has all hatched (is that the right word?!) and my pond is now chock full of tadpoles.  They all seem to bunch together near the edges of the pond; which I suppose to for protection.  One of my neighbours also found some frogs on his plot and popped them into my pond; a week later at least one of them is still there because it frightened me to death when I was moving some plants around to make room for a water forgetmenot.  I've also planted some alpine/rockery plants into the rocks around the pond.  They look really nice and I'm hoping that they will really help the whole area to bed in.  The wild flowers that I sowed next to the pond haven't come up yet but there's some ground elder creeping along and the tulips have come up nicely.  It's a really pretty area and I'm hoping that it will attract more wildlife into the plot.  I've also got an area behind the shed where I think I'm going to put a hedgehog house.  

I've planted my strawberry bed; I have 4 strawberry, 4 pineberry and 4 strasberry plants.  I have lots of strawberries in hanging baskets at home and I wanted to try something new.  I have no idea if they'll be any good but it will be an interesting experiment - I'll report back when I have a crop.  I've also got my cloche hoops on and ordered my netting.  I've gone for a heavier duty netting that I'm hoping will be easier to manage and also not tear at the slightest movement.  I've also ordered similar netting for my fruit cage; which I'm hoping to put back up in the next week or so.  I've planted my potatoes and onions this week.  I ended up using 2 of my beds for the spuds - we eat a lot of potatoes and I've chosen King Edwards and Maris Piper which need wider spacing; once I'd planted the King Edwards I knew that I could double the crop and still not have enough so that's exactly what I did!  I've planted 3 varieties of onions, again a crop that we use loads of.  I used a 4" spacing and so I've got around 180 onions in the ground - I'm very excited!

The most exciting thing that has happened since I last posted though is that Mr L has made a start on my polytunnel, https://www.firsttunnels.co.uk/ I will be posting lots of photos in a separate album so look out for that.  I went for anchor plates so Mr L had to dig 6 holes - essentially you dig the holes, put the plates in and then fill them back in.  It sounds easy but as Mr L is an engineer, he finds it really difficult if things are in exactly the right place.  We spent ages measuring the distance from the fence and making sure that we had the distance between the posts right.  Getting the hoops up was fabulous, I'd gone for a 2 piece hoop and they are sent with self drilling screws (which I think is pretty clever).  I've got twin support braces which I decided to use because my plot is at the top of the hill and next to a park so it can be quite windy.  I thought it would help add extra strength to the structure.  I've also got a crop bar - I only have one because you can't put them on the end ones; my plan is to put my strawberry hanging baskets from the house up there; apparently having strawberries in the polytunnel gives an earlier crop - so we'll see how they go :-)

I will try really hard to keep on top of things and get back into the habit of posting every week.  Happy gardening everyone :-)

3rd April 2016 - 2 tons of topsoil...

This weekend I took Friday off so I could get a delivery of top soil to fill my beds that Mr L had made for me, I had 4 beds to fill.  My plot is up at the top of a hill and because it has rained the path was slippy and pretty horrible.  The top soil was delivered at 10.30am and I started barrowing it up the hill, I did 2 barrows before I enlisted the help of the biggest L who wasn't a very grumpy teenager and really did help me out (I only had to bribe him with a sausage sandwich and then when he’d done I bought him some books to say thanks!)  It rained for most of the day; thus making the soil even heavier and it was just awful.  By 5pm we hadn't even emptied the first bag and so I had to grovel to Mr L to get him to come and finish the job for me on Saturday morning – he was unimpressed.  On the plus side I did more than 14,000 steps

I managed to get weed membrane down between my beds ready for when I can get some chippings but the area in front of the shed is so wet and awful and whilst I put some membrane down, every time anyone walked on it they sank into the mud; I'm going to have to think about how I'm going to manage that (any suggestions would be greatly received).  Also the pathway into my plot is so muddy and awful from having to push the barrow on it over and over whilst it was raining.  I really need a few dry days so that I can cover it.  I don’t want to add anything non-organic in case I ever decide to move things around.  I’ve been adding upside down turf over the muddy puddles to try and soak up the wetness but it’s not really adding enough solid mass to stop me from sinking!  I’ve also had to fill some of the holes on the plot with the garden compost because they were pretty lethal but you also sink into them when you step on them – it’s ultra-annoying!

I’ve ended up having to move my bird feeding station from in front of the shed, which I was fed up about because I loved watching the birds while I was having a coffee.  I’ve had a blackbird visiting but he's a very messy one and there were so many mealworms in my pond that I really couldn't leave it there.  I've only moved it across the path but I'm hoping that I'll still be able to see the birds from inside the shed.  On the plus side the birds are starting to perch on the archway which means that I can still see them and if I have the door of the shed open I can see them at the feeder.

Finally, I’m very excited because I ordered a polytunnel on Friday evening.  I used First Tunnels after a little bit of research.  I looked at a few sites but ended with a choice between First and Premier.  The reason I ended up going with First was that when I priced it all up, because of their discounts (depending on how much you spend you can get 10%, 15% or 20%) First was cheaper than Premier.  Also First include anti hot spot tape and hinged doors at both ends, both of which are extras at Premier.  I opted to get both crop bars and twin support bars because I do want to hang baskets in the tunnel and they’ll add strength; I’m also conscious that my plot is at the top of a hill and although there are a few trees around it’s also next to a park so it can be quite exposed.  I’ve also opted for anchor plates and aluminium base rails to avoid the need for digging a trench around the tunnel (which Mr L really didn’t want to do!) 

www.firsttunnels.co.uk

I have been pretty impressed with their service so far.  The process of ordering is really easy it’s very step by step and I ended up with a 15% discount.  I finalised my order late on Friday night and they called me on Saturday to tell me that it would be delivered on Monday.  The only downside is that because it’s a courier that they use, they can only ask them if they would call me before they deliver but they can’t guarantee that they will.  I was hoping to get it delivered directly to the plot and work from home while I was waiting but because they don’t know if they’ll call me I’ve had to have it delivered to the house instead.  It’s not a great hardship but it just slightly puts me out.

We’ve been watching videos about building a polytunnel and I might see if I can persuade the Biggest L to come and video us putting ours up – it will be good for a laugh even if it’s not particularly helpful!!

I hope you all have a great week - happy gardening

28th March 2016 - Compost

When I first started gardening I knew that a good compost heap was important but I didn't really know how to go about making it.  I turned to the internet and the Eden Project

https://www.edenproject.com/learn/for-everyone/how-to-make-a-compost-heap-10-top-tips

The main ones that I live by are:

Put the right things in...

Good things to compost include vegetable peelings, fruit waste, teabags, plant prunings and grass cuttings. These are fast to break down and provide important nitrogen as well as moisture. It’s also good to include cardboard egg boxes, scrunched up paper and fallen leaves. These are slower to rot but provide vital fibre and carbon and also allow important air pockets to form in the mixture. Crushed eggshells can be included to add useful minerals.

Keep the balance right...

The key to good compost lies in getting the mix right. Keep the‘greens’ and ‘browns’ properly balanced, (approx 25 to 50 percent of green material). If the compost is too wet, add more ‘browns’. If it’s too dry, add some ‘greens’. Make sure there is enough air in the mixture is also important. Adding scrunched up bits of cardboard is a simple way to create air pockets that will help keep the compost healthy. Air can also be added by mixing the contents.

 Give it a good airing...

A well-cared-for compost heap requires regular turning.  Turning the compost helps to aerate and mix up the waste and cuttings, which leads to faster composting.

The compost takes six months to two years to be ready; when it is ready it is dark brown, with a crumbly soil-like texture and a smell of damp woodland. All the material in the heap will not be like this, but any remaining un-rotted material can be added to a new compost bin for the following years rotatations.  I have a three year rotation, it is my view that it doesn't matter how big or small your plot is you should have at least 3 compost bins, at the end of each 3 year rotation I take out anything that still needs to breakdown some more and put it back into the newest bin for another 3 year rotation.

I took over a plot that had 2 full bins already on it; which was fabulous but on closer inspection because the beds hadn't been properly prepared they both had nettles and doc growing through them.  I prepare my beds by using cardboard, it's not foolproof but it does slow the weeds down.  I have contemplated using a weed membrane but I wasn't sure if it would let the worms through to do their thing so I've stayed away from it - I'm happy for someone to tell me that worms can get through the membrane ;-)

In year one I fill my first bin, I use a mixture of waste from the plot as well as taking my kitchen waste, cereal boxes, egg boxes and egg shells to add.  At the end of the season I cover the compost with a heavy duty weed membrane which stops any new weeds taking root in the compost and any that have worked their way up from growing successfully whilst the compost is breaking down.  I repeat the process in year two and then in year three I start using the compost from year one whilst filling the third bin.

I'm also a firm believer that any organic material can be composted but I drown nettles to make a fertiliser and burn perennial weeds like doc, dandelion and bindweed as well as any really big pieces of wood that I don't think will break down as part of my three year rotation.  Once burnt I put the ash into my oldest compost bin (the one I'm using or will be using next).  My thought is that when I buy compost I pay extra for the one that has potash so it must be good to add!

Ultimately compost is essential for my gardening, I use it as a soil improver (I have very heavy clay), as a mulch and for my seedlings.  I think that taking the time to really allow my compost to break down is really important.  Yes - I could just have 2 bins and still have reasonably good compost but I hope that by adding another year into my plan I have a better quality compost which is more fully broken down and less need for sifting each year!

I hope that my thoughts help you to get good quality compost, as ever feel free to post your thoughts or comments - happy gardening!

19th March 2016 - It's Shed Day!!

I got a shed for Christmas, we ordered it from Tiger Sheds, when they had a deal on and whilst we didn't get much of a discount (about £25) it was still money better in my pocket than theirs!!  I was particularly impressed with the choice, service and delivery.  I ended up getting an 8x6 shiplap pent shed but because the path up to my plot was very muddy it wasn't really passable carrying 7 very heavy panels and it's not stopped raining for long enough to lay the slab that Mr L put down last week, it's been sat in the garden at home for about 6 weeks.  

http://www.tigersheds.com/

Mr L borrowed a van from work to get everything up there and we loaded it all up, got up to the car park and then Mr L and I carried the floor up to the plot.  It was crippling and that was the lightest panel - oh dear!  We walked back down to the van and Mr L had an idea!  Off he drove back to the house bringing back middle L's go-cart.  We loaded each panel onto the cart with Biggest L (aka grumpy teenager) helping his Dad to guide them up the hill.  Once we used the cart we got them all up the plot really quickly and Mr L cracked on with putting the panels together.

I have to admit that I misidentified the roof as the back panel so poor Mr L was struggling to understand how on earth it went together (oops!)  Once he realised that we'd got it wrong he soon cracked on with fastening the panels together and before I knew it we had a shed - yippee!!!  You can see that there is plenty of room in front for my chair and also plenty of room at the side for my waterbutt.  I have a brown turkey fig that I'm intending to put on the path in front of the shed and I think you can see from this photo that the pond and my bird feeding station is nicely in front of the shed so I'm very much looking forwards to having my cup of coffee in that area of my plot.  

Once we had the shed built but before we put the windows in I popped down to Wickes to buy the paint.  I had been looking at Cuprinol Garden Shades and I particularly liked Summer Damson but when I went to buy it I decided it was really too expensive (£23 each or 2 for £30) and I started to look for a cheaper alternative.  The problem is that the cheaper ones don't come in the range of colours but I found a Wikes own with a really nice shade of blue so I picked that one (£16 each or 2 for £20).  My plan at the moment is to paint the outside and then I'll decide what to do with the inside.  

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Garden-Colour-Hyacinth-Blue-2-5L/p/118364

Bigest L also wants to decorate the shed so I'm trying to encourage him to draw flowers on the sides and he wants to buy the cuprinol garden shade test pots to paint them - I'll keep you posted on how he gets on.  

I will take a moment to update you on my little pond pump, it was a very cloudy day here in Yorkshire and unfortunately my pump was not charged enough to work, the mini fountain did come on a few times but unfortunately not enough for it to really make a difference.  I think I'll be investing in more oxygenating plants and just use the pump for visual effect when I'm there. 

14th March 2016 - Found the plot!

Well here we are in spring (almost), winter has been pretty horrible here in Yorkshire the town that I live in was flooded pretty badly on Boxing Day and whilst I wasn't directly affected because my house is on top of the hill the whole area was pretty horrible for a while.  

I discovered that the path from the carpark to my plot has a natural spring beneath it and because of that the path is treacherous. I managed to slip and land on my behind more than once right outside my neighbours plot - I'm sure I've given them a few chuckles lol.

Since we last met I bought a shed for my new plot and I got a load of slabs from a friend so Mr L has been busy this weekend laying the slabs ready for my shed to be put up next week.  I'm so excited to get myself established after what feels like forever!  

I've also got plenty of new plants for my pond.  I've been buying smaller plants which don't give the impact but are certainly more affordable which means I have been able to buy more.  I've primarily used The Manic Botanic, an Amazon Shop, and I've been happy with the quality of the products.  They come bare-rooted, usually in a plastic bag inside a well packaged box.  I've had some ornamental grass, oxygenating weed and various marginals.  I'm really looking forwards to them taking off.  I also learnt that if you don't pot your pond plants with hessian and gravel then when you leave your plants for a few weeks you'll come back to them being bare rooted again!  That's been fixed now with a length of hessian that I've cut into squares and put under the pond compost.  I'm hoping that will fix the problem and I managed to get a small bag of grit from the local garden centre for just £2

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Manic-Botanic/b/ref=bl_dp_s_web_3512023031?ie=UTF8&node=3512023031&field-lbr_brands_browse-bin=The+Manic+Botanic

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00PB0JY92?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00

I've installed a solar pump which, so far I'm impressed with.  I have put the solar panel on top of my (new) bird feeding station and run the wire down the post and into the pond.  The fountain is small but does the job and I'm hopeful that it will help keep the pond clear.  There is another pond at the bottom of my path, which has loads of frogs in it.  I'm hoping that some of the frogs might make their way up the path but if not I will be acquiring some of the frog spawn that will appear in the next week or so.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003NSY12O?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00

As mentioned I've also got a bird feeding station, which I've positioned next to my pond and in front of my shed.  Since I started this blog I have mentioned Richard Jackson's flower power a few times; I've also tried out Richard Jacksons wild bird feed.  I have been impressed with the quality of the feed.  The bird food includes sunflower hearts, naked oats, red dari, red millet, kibbled peanuts, canary seeds, white dari, suet pellets, hempseed, nyger seed, Japanese millet and oyster grit.  It's a really high energy feed and so far I've been surprised at the lack of wastage around the bottom of the feeder.  The pack also comes with fruit balls (like fat balls but nicer!), they are made of ground wheat, calcium carbonate, beef tallow, wheat flour, wheat, red dari, black oats, sunflower seeds.  They smell lovely and the birds can't get enough of them.

http://www.qvcuk.com/Richard-Jacksons-Premium-12.75kg-High-Energy-Bird-Food-with-High-Energy-Treats.product.507200.html?sc=SRCH&cm_sp=VIEWPOSITION-_-1-_-507200