The Cats Tripe

After the  three consecutive weather events in Febuary, all of them wet and really quite windy with barely a let up between them I'm t...

Small signs of spring are emerging in the existing garden; along with these winter aconites are some purple croci and quite a lot of snowd...

The days barely seem any longer but the pull towards starting the next season of seeds is building up. As a first step I thought I'd l...

We've moved. We're now in the Forest of Dean making a home we hope will last us the rest of our lives. This is the view from the b...

This year those old reliable tomatoes have failed for me, or I have failed them. Away during a crucial moment when I should have been ty...

I have two tamarillo plants started from seed way back in 2016 when I bought a lot of tender novelties in the rush of a new polytunnel. Th...

Finally got the potatoes planted by the middle of last week. Most years we'd be looking at the first harvest in a week or two. If we g...