Un-nibbled peas, flowering strawberries and broad beans

April 16, 2023

Hello! How’s your week been? Don’t you love this time of year? I am planting and sowing, sowing and planting, …

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 …

September 1, 2020

Harvesting this month: French beans, courgettes, patty pan summer squash, sweetcorn, potatoes (the last of the second earlies to eat, …

April 21, 2015

Heeelp….!! I’m running out of room… As always in April, there’s a traffic jam in my greenhouse. Outside, the cold frame is …

September 24, 2008

This is a cob on my sweetcorn the day before I got my two feral cats to keep down the …

September 8, 2008

I don’t know why it is that none of those worthy tomes about growing things on allotments ever talk about …