Regardless of the number of years that I’ve been gardening, I still thrill to the sight of the garden starting to emerge from its winter ine...

There’s a pair of very muddy boots in my hallway, evidence of my gardening efforts over the past week. Helped by a couple of afternoons of w...

It was a snowy day in the London veg patch It’s winter here in the northern hemisphere so I shouldn’t be surprised when it snows ... or shou...

The cull. Most are only just 'out of date' .. but perhaps good enough for micro leaves? With the start of a new year heralding a thi...

Cherry Falls - indeed they do! One constant of my food growing year are the tomato seeds I sow in March. We gardeners like to wax lyrical ab...

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...