The time for planting and weeding is over – August is the time for harvest! All the fruit trees are heavily laden – so much so that one o...

Nature is burgeoning, blooming and over-flowing all over the garden. Even though this happens every year, it is still a re-assuring surpr...

It's mid-summer and the garden is full of good things growing! Weeds are pretty firmly under control – thanks to regular hoeing. After ...

Each year brings its surprises – its sad failures and its magnificent successes. 2019 has been no different. Spring was a strange one – m...

It has been an unusual year (again!). Our spring sowing was almost immediately followed by 6 weeks of blazing sunshine - not a good recip...