A picture of my violets just because they are so beautiful  What is going on in my veg garden?  My laziness in the garden last year is prod...

At last there’s a tangible feeling that winter may be moving on.  That’s easier to imagine on a day like today when the sun is shining, the ...

What's happening in the garden this month ? Weeds, weeds, weeds!  That's what. And spiders ... so many spiders. And because it feels...

  Can it be that time of year again already? I'm just finishing off my summer batch of elder flower cordial and yesterday, as I walked ...

This past week the last of the gooseberries have been picked (a bit later than usual, the weather has been so unhelpful this year) and now i...

It's been a pretty disastrous year for veg growing in my patch and this morning, late July, it feels positively autumnal. (Not in a good...

Once again, Prunella vulgaris, aka Self Heal, has returned to the veg patch with renewed vigour. It's a perennial, an enthusiastic self-...