Oliver Moore: Rich soil holds key to organic success

I visited a friends’s allotment in Clare recently. It was a gorgeous sunny day, and the gardens were abundant, almost teeming with wildflowers as we approached.

“There isn’t much food growing going on here,” I thought to myself, enjoying the glory of it all the same.

When we went to clear a bed of weeds, I put my hands into the soil. It was incredible. Varying shades of black and brown, clumpy, rich, very deep soil. It was a joy to hold and behold. And so very different to my own fledgling allotment, however neat and tidy it is.