Land cress and potato soup

January 18, 2023

American land cress is one of my favourite winter salad vegetables. It looks and tastes very similar to watercress and …

Postcard from Chelsea: Edible Chelsea

May 26, 2017

Great to see the veg back at Chelsea. We had a brief flurry of edible love back in the mid-noughties, when the …

June 27, 2011

My poor new potatoes are suffering a nasty attack of early blight. Not quite as nasty as late blight, as …

September 29, 2008

I thought it couldn’t be long – especially with the summer we’ve just had. Blight has made its first unwelcome …