Pigeons are greedy intelligent creatures.  I've spent a disproportionate amount of time this year devising a means to keep them away fro...

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

I hope no-one is taken aback by the new look of my blog - although it may not be too obvious as I've left the header photo alone (for ...

I only just started to sow my seeds at the end of March. Does this make me badly organised? Maybe, but hopefully not.  Remembering that l...

While I try and squeeze a few moments to write up my notes about my trip to Jekka's herb farm, I wanted to share a little bit of magi...

Despite the grey skies over the veg patch, close inspection reveals that things are surely happening. A little pootle around the patch ye...

Writing about the veg patch last year, I was using words like 'herbalicious' and 'lush' and reporting conversations with ...