Boris | The Gardener

"In wilderness is the preservation of the world"

About Me

The earliest available notes from Boris` gardening diary take us back to 2005 when he was only 18. He took over a big garden, above the village he lived in, in Croatia. He swore never to use chemicals, and this mentality continues to date. His knowledge and early life explorations are based on organic, natural and sustainable permacultural methods and ethos, both in gardening and life. The turning point in his gardening life was when he discovered American gardener Ruth Stout, in his early 20s, and her deep mulching method, followed and inspired by the miraculous work of Masanobu Fukuoka. The next season, he ordered 100 hay bales, and his gardening style was changed forever.

Four years of mulching in the dry Croatian climate, continued by the humid seasons in the UK, on his allotment and client`s gardens, enriched Boris`s deep mulching experience.

Numerous blog posts on his artistic website, on the Permaculture Association website, on YouTube and in Permaculture magazine prove the amount of courage he has to try something new, out of fashion and underrated. He is always accompanied by his best friend Roxy. Boris stands for people, art and sustainability

Featured Posts

What is mulching

Today I will be talking about mulching, one of my biggest passions within the gardening world, or a lifestyle. I

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My first cottage garden

Having a lovely, well-maintained and established garden enhances many aspects of life. From jealous friends and neighbors, to supporting wildlife, learning

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What have I learned about

This is the very first post about mulching in the UK climate. I am sure that many have already tried

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My cottage garden

What is knowledge and how it is related to emotions? When I was 14, I had a garden above the

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Pass me your weeds, please

A neighbor on the allotment site stopped by my plot, which is covered with a thick layer of mulch, mostly

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Weeds seeds vs vegetables

One of the very common questions about deep mulching is how the vegetables can grow if weeds can`t? In my

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Ruth Stout`s method in the

It`s been a year now since I have started Ruth Stout`s deep mulching method in the UK, and I can

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Midsummer updates

It’s the end of July and if honest, I didn’t think that the year will turn into such an abundance.

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Preparing the soil for deep

Encouraged by so many questions that I have received about Ruth Stout`s straw deep mulching method that I am practicing

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The earliest spring

The earliest spring has finally arrived. In Nature, elements are interconnected, affecting and depending on each other. Longer days and

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Boris is also passionate about art and expressionism, and has been working with reclaimed materials since 2017. Present in a few local galleries, he has given a few interviews for online art magasines, and was selected for students video project. The most famous products, whimsical birdhouses, are now available in his online shop.

His online gallery shows another famous line of products called Aileni (reborn in Welsh), representing people- we are all scarred, burnt and stitched by life, but still beautiful, solid and useful in this world.

My Gallery

Services

Cottage Garden Design
Light Landscape
Light tree surgery
Soil Improvement
Pruning/Mulching
Grass Cutting
Creating Compost
Bramble Management
Education
Wildlife Protection
Pressure washing

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