Forever food
Just imagine a veg patch which goes on giving, year after year – no need to resow or plant up …
Category Archives: exotic edibles
The September veg garden
Harvesting this month: French beans, courgettes, patty pan summer squash, sweetcorn, potatoes (the last of the second earlies to eat, …
Postcard from Chelsea: Edible Chelsea
Great to see the veg back at Chelsea. We had a brief flurry of edible love back in the mid-noughties, when the …
So… what’s new?
A quick whizz round the Garden Press Event up in London the other week – and I do mean quick, …
Wordless Wednesday: Gourds
As seen in the wonderful kitchen garden at Barrington Court, Somerset
Pick of the month: Cucamelon
Well. These are very curious little things. Cucamelons are the latest Big Thing in veg growing: everyone seems to have …
Life in the greenhouse: August
Summertime… and the watering is endless…. Every day I am to be found in the greenhouses behind a hose – …
Planting witchetty grubs
Not much gardening going on yesterday: it was blowing a hooley again and though it wasn’t exactly raining hard, what …
Let sowing commence…
Seedlings coming along nicely! Here’s the tray of mixed salad seedlings I put in at the beginning of February. Alongside …
Heritage days
Now here’s an exciting early Christmas present. Just chosen my six varieties from the Heritage Seed Library’s catalogue, which plopped …
Sally Nex 