This is what the postman brought me at lunchtime today: Sophie - she of the prize winning pumpkin - chose to share her Fortnum's ham...

I have to confess to having been on a bit of a 'go-slow' in the Veg Patch this last week. The weather has not been so conducive to ...

The word 'estate' (when used for city communities) has such hostile connotations these days that I hesitate to use it when describin...

As a family, we're having a week of gardening: horticultural heaven for me (being outdoors in the Veg Patch), horticultural hell for my...

Recently I've been giving some thought to how helpful it would be to have a little Bay tree in our (next year's, expanded) herb patc...

It's a strange old thing, this blogging lark, isn't it?  One minute I'm feeling that there's nothing to tell, then suddenl...