Dreaming of winter
In the garden, it’s August: the pumpkins are swelling, the beans are coming thick and fast, and I’m feasting on …
Category Archives: seeds
Sowing seed nature’s way
Another month, another stack of seed trays to prick out. The greenhouse shelves are already full of overcrowded seedlings to …
The October veg garden
Harvesting this month: French beans, carrots, the last of the courgettes and patty pan summer squash, Musquee de Provence winter …
Seed swap 2017
I do like a good seed swap. It’s a simple idea: you take your spares along to your local …
Let sowing commence…
Seedlings coming along nicely! Here’s the tray of mixed salad seedlings I put in at the beginning of February. Alongside …
Big Seed Giveaway 2015
While we’re on the subject of seeds… The imminent arrival of my little package of heritage seeds from the HSL has …
Heritage days
Now here’s an exciting early Christmas present. Just chosen my six varieties from the Heritage Seed Library’s catalogue, which plopped …
Bean there, done that
I do love it when you figure something out all by yourself. I’ve always been slightly mystified by the instructions for …
Things ain’t what they ought to be
These are this year’s patty pan squash They’re a little bit odd. I’ve grown yellow patty pans before: and they …
Of seed bombs and mushrooms
I got a lovely little parcel in the post the other day. I do love a good seed swap. This …
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