Dessication Situation
It’s all too easy to see growing your own vegetables through rose-coloured glasses. But home grown products easily can turn out underwhelming: awkwardly-shaped, tough and – worst of all – […]
Heaps of Harvests
..the joy tempered only by my enrolment in the caterpillar calamity club You could be forgiven for thinking my garlic plants were dead a couple of weeks ago, with their […]
Finding Flavours
This is that phase of the vegetable growing year when all the hard work seems to be done: digging over and clearing ground at the end of winter and sowing […]
Taking Shape
There’s something cute about tiny cucumbers just starting to form. All of a sudden the first few have appeared this week and I took the opportunity to pinch out the […]
It’s all growing rather well …
Priority One during this last week of high temperatures was potting on various things which were nearly bursting out of propagators, or which were outgrowing their initial small pots. A […]
Rain has its upside
Especially if you’re sowing lettuce With warnings of a week of heavy rain about to begin, it was important to get some planting jobs done in the garden today. By […]
Heats, Shoots and Leaves
This hot sunny weather is perfect for vegetable growing. Unfortunately it’s also perfect for lounging outside with a bottle of wine, so I didn’t quite do as much gardening as […]
