I'd earmarked November as being my month for thinking about fruit. I need to move half of my 3 year old fruit trees to space them out mo...

I may have spoken a bit too soon about the gloominess of the weather as we've had some lovely autumnal days over the past week. Fresh, b...

So here we are, getting on for mid-November: recent days have been damper and darker, with indoor lights needed by half four in the afternoo...

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month: We will remember them. (The British Legion is committed to teaching young ...

Looking out of the window yesterday morning at drab skies, I was happy to spend some time in the kitchen de-podding a stack of beans.  Havin...

All summer long I've been bowled over by the wonderful bright orange blooms of the calendula (aka Pot Marigold) in the veg patch.  The s...

According to the BBC weather last night, there's a bank of mild but wet weather heading across the country so today's sunshine made...