It's been a pretty disastrous year for veg growing in my patch and this morning, late July, it feels positively autumnal. (Not in a good...

The seed sowing begins ... This month I've been pondering on why some seeds fail and the relativity of time ... days pass quickly when e...

It's still cold, even in London, but these past few days there have been glimpses of blue skies that make me think about summer a...

(Photo: Looking back on the glory years!)  I'm fascinated how language constantly evolves and new words pop up. I discovered an am...

As Bank Holiday Mondays go, this week's was fairly typical - lashing rain and lots of it.  Despite promises of a dry day, I woke up t...

Or, if at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again. Like most gardeners (I imagine) I have a large box of seeds, the result of ...

No wonder British gardeners are obsessed with the weather! This time last year there was snow on the ground, yet this past week has been dry...

There are many things that can make a week nice to look back on. Sometimes a good week is just a productive week.  Or it's a week when n...

Thursday is my Friday.  Currently the end of the working week, day off and time to plan and catch up before Garden College on Friday an...

Abundance is not the word I'd reach for when describing the past year's veg successes. It's been more a little taste of this a...

I love the synchronicity of the gardening world; bloggers are commenting on the first signs of spring, trees beginning to bud, bulbs pushin...

Okay, officially slap my wrist.  Three weeks without posting? Very remiss of me.  So... what have I been up to, apart from looking out at th...

As well as noticing more bugs and slugs in the veg garden as the season revolves round into autumn, I'm also watching out for seeds.  So...

Strawberry and tomato (as if you didn't know!) My friend Ana has recently built her first raised bed and mentioned that she now neede...

Last weekend someone crept onto the veg Patch just before dawn and helped themselves to the chicken wire which protected the crops from foxe...

I'm a recent fan of My Tiny Plot, a blog written by Gillian Carson.  She's written today about seed packet design , having received ...

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 ...