... and then it wasn't.   Rain has stopped play. Am I unhappy? Not a bit, I'm actually very grateful for the promised deluge. Plant...

Shall I be terribly English and talk about the weather? At times it’s felt as though nothing would grow. As ever with the British spring, th...

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 Most are only just 'out of date' ..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...