So this is it ... the start of summer proper as heralded by sixteen plus hours of daylight, a solar eclipse and the summer solstice - all ha...

One job that I almost can't bear to do every year (and frequently neglect) is to thin out the small apple fruit. It always seems a shame...

What can I say about this year's marvellous month of May? It's been a throwback to that glorious summer of 2018, with blue skies mos...

Shall we just for a moment talk about flowers in the veg garden? Every day this week I’ve been working in the veg plot as plants raised ...

( Oops, this post should have been out at the end of April! What can I say?! I've been busy tending to my veg babies, amongst other stuf...

There's a massive elder tree next to the salad garden cul-de-sac, whose branches droop invitingly over the fence towards me.  Those bran...

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