Of all the flowers in the garden, the sunflower is surely the one most readily associated with the long, leisurely, picnic-filled days of s...

I just wanted to say a big Thank you!  to Tracey at igrowveg.com .  She recently ran a comments competition on her excellent website, asking...

Ah, the synchronicity of blogging!  Several of my favourite bloggers are writing about the storage of their onion harvests and, at the risk ...

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...

Actually, yesterday was the perfect day especially since it was also my day off! I was at liberty to go and drift through the veg patch mak...

Rootling around among the nasturtiums yesterday evening, lifting the last of the gar-leeks, look what I found: Eeeeuwwww!  (But not so ...

:: Gar-leeks unearthed :: First things first, thank you to everyone who commented on my gar-leek conundrum. I've since pulled up a fe...