Pastures new

December 10, 2014

I am gardening again! Well – I’ve always been gardening, but not in other people’s gardens for a while. That’s …

Rogue’s gallery: Garlic rust

July 22, 2014

My garlic has turned ginger. And not in a good way. It happened just about overnight, a few weeks ago. …

July 15, 2014

Well I thought I was doing pretty well on the exotics front this year, what with the tomatilloes hogging one …

July 12, 2014

July 10, 2014

July 9, 2014

June 25, 2014

Pea ‘Oregon Sugar Pod’ To quote a well-known advert for a certain shop which used to sell clothing but now …

June 8, 2014

On the whole, I’m a pretty rugged sort of person. A disproportionate amount of my gardening time seems to be …

May 31, 2014

You won’t be gardening long before you feel the need for a little electricity. I don’t mean excitement: goodness, there’s …

May 26, 2014

As the bulldozers rumble in and we leave Chelsea for another year (pause for a muffled sob into my hanky): …