The internet and social media are full of tales of people turning to gardening, and food growing in particular, during the lockdown.  Most c...

Sweet Woodruff or Galium odoratum. A useful and vigorous ground cover with scrambling stems that will root where they touch the soil (or e...

Good things in small packages - sitting in the sun this morning, watching this bumblebee forage. This past week the garden has been a w...

A neighbour’s rhubarb plant in mid February.  It’s going to get a lot bigger... Growing rhubarb is easy, you say? A few years ago, I wo...

I'm not a keeper of cats although they do seem to show up regularly in my life. Many of the local households in this small corner of Cam...

Let's face it, progress is slow in the veg garden even in the mildest of winters - those little plants know that they’re better off snug...

Hallelujah! Winter is almost over, she shouted.  Okay, that may be stretching it a bit but there are definite sightings of tulip buds ri...