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 […]
Tag Archives: strawberries
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 […]
Tutti Frutti
It’s easy to forget about fruit. Certainly the fruits which grow in my garden seem to survive and produce with very little intervention. I know crops are better if you […]
A purple thing goin’ on
The local Council round here has a habit of letting various areas of land get overgrown with weeds before springing into late mowing action. That means every May there’s a […]
Healthy Returns
After nearly five months in the ground, the maincrop potatoes were ready to come out this weekend. I do like the annual treasure hunt of fishing through the soil for […]
From Bees to Peas
It was a pleasure to pick the first peas of the year today. This Douce Provence plant has overwintered so is producing pods a good month or two before spring […]
Squash survival
The resilience of some plants never ceases to amaze. Many weeks ago I accidentally snapped the delicate stem of a young squash plant. Just a little of the stalk was […]
