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March 18, 2020

Just from time to time, I put down the hand fork, brush the mud off my jeans, look up and …

This month in the garden…

February 19, 2017

Well. Hasn’t it got busy around here lately. There I was, listening morosely to the tumbleweed (well, gales and splattering …

January 1, 2017

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

October 1, 2016

Bother. My tomatoes have gone and split on me. This, of course, is my own silly fault. Tomatoes split for …

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 …

August 21, 2016

Summertime… and the watering is endless…. Every day I am to be found in the greenhouses behind a hose – …

November 14, 2015

…greenhouse tomatoes. I have cleared this year’s crop: always a marker that you can no longer kid yourself: the season …

October 23, 2013

The slow dying of the greenhouses is the swansong of my year. They’re the last to go: long after the …