Last weekend, and for a few days before, stage two of annual veg growing, otherwise known as Peak Bottleneck, has been reached here. Jus...

Mid-April, even in the southern counties of the UK, can be cold, wet and windy. This year though, there have been some joyously warm days wh...

With spring well underway, I’m spending quite a bit of my gardening time bending over to pull out weeds. Little and often is my method...

Hardly a vision of beauty, although this space will fill up fast. Isn't it lovely the way our gardens are giving us hope and keepi...

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...