Each time I open up the mature compost heap (12 months of green material) the excitement is like receiving a rather special Christmas...

We still have parsnips, broccoli and curly kale in the garden. There are still plenty of delicious apples on the espaliered fruit trees...

Yes, it's the time of harvest and autumn clear-ups! Plenty of autotelic activity! There is still a lot to do – hundreds of tasty apples...

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...

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

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

Sunshine and more sunshine – has been the story of May in the garden. But the breezes have been cool and some of the nights downright...

The broccoli was (and is) great. We've enjoyed sumptuous green shoots almost every other day now – and there are 22 bags safely stored...

At last – dry weather, fresh broccoli and lots of seeds already sown. Spring is on the way and the primroses are sweetly blooming. ...

There is no better therapy for bodily pain and discomfort than creative working in wood. During winter months I try to spend 2 or 3...

Back to Earth After the wettest autumn I can ever remember the weather has finally let up and routine work in the garden goes on. For...

All in the garden is WET, WET, WET!! I can never remember such a wet “back-end”. There are still parsnips and beetroot in the...

In the Garden (and in the Kitchen) September is a month of harvesting and “mellow fruitfulness”! Every two days I have been picking...

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

The seeds have spouted, sucking in the air Transforming its carbon without a care Powered by sunlight and the soil below Together it's...

It's exciting when a new course begins on a Friday to imagine the interesting people (the students) I'm going to be working with in the...

This month we are talking about spring in the garden - but you don't need a garden to experience the “force” of life! Anyone can make...

Salad crops, courgettes and pumpkins are now germinating in the greenhouse. Potatoes, parsnips and celeriac are already under the...

So the leaves have fallen and the first frosts have put the garden into its winter sleep. I've scooped up most of the fallen leaves (the...

Composting and your New Year's Resolution On our small space-ship Earth, the long term future of our human civilization depends entirely...