Peas, apple blossom and self-sown chard

May 14, 2023

Hello! How has your gardening week been? Mine has been mostly full of light and warmth, bar a few spectacularly …

The October veg garden

October 2, 2020

Harvesting this month: French beans, carrots, the last of the courgettes and patty pan summer squash, Musquee de Provence winter …

January 23, 2017

It is time to think of fruit. Gleaming apples and fat ripe plums; perfumed quinces and sugary pears. Great heavy …

January 7, 2017

I have definitely been having a bit of a slump in the garden just recently. This occasionally happens, even to …

January 1, 2017

Thank goodness 2016 is over. I’m not sure things look a whole lot better for 2017, but like all …

September 2, 2016

Here’s a thing. I like September. August is either sweaty or disappointingly rainy (the former, this year); and there’s not …