Autumn is the new summer, to borrow and misquote a piece of fashion nonsense.  Days like today and yesterday are my kind of weather: the ...

There's a bookshelf in the design studios at college where unwanted books can be left for others. It was there I found a small pocket...

I'm pleased August is over; it was too hot and too dry (unbelievably for the UK) and September is always so wonderfully lush - the p...

City fruit. There's a surprising amount of it about on trees and shrubs in the street, parks, gardens and abandoned areas, just wai...

… to sow a few seeds before late summer turns into autumn. Having planted out my winter veg and cleared the last of the peas, I really wan...

As we're bang in the middle of the preserving season, jars and bottles are easily bought (if you haven't been carefully storing ...

It's not so much that I love to grow nasturtiums (I do) but that they love to grow for me. Every year, around this time, they seem to ta...