How I beat the slugs to grow a whopping 250,000 flowers a year
Biodynamic gardener Alfie Nickerson uses the principles of lunar gardening to grow the beautiful blooms on his Norfolk flower farm
Ria Higgins
31 August 2025
Biodynamic gardener Alfie Nickerson grow flowers for 28 weeks of the year, from March to November
Gardener Alfie Nickerson relocated from London to Norfolk five years ago to set up Burnt Fen Flowers, selling cut flowers grown biodynamically on his family’s farm on the Norfolk Broads... [the rest, dear reader is behind a paywall ...}