Red Valerian aka Centranthus ruber .  I was excited to read recently that this plant is edible - some say gorgeous flavour, others that ...

Now there's a beautiful sight - bug free broad bean tops! You've got to love June for the lushness of the garden!  I'm find...

Pudding.  Surely one of the most evocative words in the English language.  At this time of year, if a pudding is to be provided from the...

The weekend before last, during a big garden tidy up, the last of the dried broad bean pods were cut for seed and the plants dug up and a...

On Sunday evening I went to pick a few broad beans, as you do. 30 degrees of daily sunshine and enough water to stop the plants keeling o...

An ice-cream scoop is the perfect tool for removing squash seeds. Snow clinging to the roof tiles suggests a lunch of warming soups and...

Borage flowers are one of the unmistakeable signs of summer.  Borage is one of the prettiest summer herbs with both edible and medicinal ...

The veg patch in early December.  As mentioned in yesterday's post, the slow onset of wintry weather has been kind to my veg garden (if ...

This is my first year of growing courgettes so I was thrilled to see the plants flourishing in the few short weeks after planting out, altho...

... A Guide for Complete Beginners by Jon Clift and Amanda Cuthbert.  This is a(nother) new book aimed at novice food-growing gardeners and,...

Of the requests (mostly ignored) that I get for promotional links on this blog, this one got my attention - for all the wrong reasons. Su...