Chickens love weeds

As those of you who have your own blog or website will know, once your site has been active for a while it becomes a target for spammers if you allow people to leave comments.

Just so you know, I reserve the right to remove comments that I feel are spam. I also reserve the right to remove links from comments that I think are spammy. If you don’t like it, don’t post a comment. Don’t bother entering into an email argument with me, because these are my rules.

Increasingly, this website is being targeted by PR people and online marketeers because of the access it has to the global gardening community. I get an ever-increasing number of emails asking me to promote things. I don’t mind if the person in question has bothered to take a good look at the blog and realises that – for the most part – I only talk about edible and useful plants. But this is a blog about permaculture and sustainable, organic gardening, so there are many things I have no interest in promoting. Again, this is my site so it’s my choice and if you choose to send me a PR email regarding something outside of my interest area, then in all likelihood you will not get a response.

For those of you in the dark as to what has promoted this rant, I shall now provide some useful content :)

You may remember that in 2008 the Guardian published an article of mine on eating your weeds (No Hoe Zone) – the ultimate permaculture trick of turning a waste product into a resource. I am going to continue that theme today, and give you several links to recipes that use Japanese Knotweed, a perennial plant that has become an invasive weeds in the UK, but which I do not have in my garden. None of these are links to commercial content – they’re all people with an interest in sustainable living.

I feel better now. Thank you for listening :)