So farewell then….
…courgette plants. It was a lovely relationship, and you were generous to a fault, but I think our season in the sun is over. The first frost struck last night: a very light one, to be sure, and I got...
View ArticleRogues' gallery: Slugs
I was rootling about in the garden the other day and turned over a plank of wood – and look what I found. Sorry if you’re eating while reading this: but you knew it wasn’t going to be long before the...
View ArticleHampton Court Flower Show 2010: Veggie heaven
Giant cabbages in immaculate rows in the massive GYO centrepiece garden Home Grown Never mind all that Chelsea razzmatazz and flummery. If you grow veg, the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show is where it’s...
View ArticlePick of the month: September
Squash ‘Yellow Scallop’ More of a sculpture than a vegetable: the prettiest thing I've ever grown Ever grown a vegetable so breathtakingly beautiful you make a detour by its patch of your vegetable...
View ArticleEnd-of-season review
I know my squashes did well, but... Nope, can't take credit for this lot: it's Heligan's astonishing harvest The light is dimming, the air is chilling, and though it is still unseasonably mild here...
View ArticleHot pots
I'm running out of room.... Just one corner of my packed greenhouse The annual round of horticultural hot-desking has begun: that frenetic three-month spell in which I seem to spend my whole time...
View ArticleGarden-less gardening
People are nothing if not inventive. It may have once been the case that every self-respecting householder had a couple of acres on the estate to set aside for a walled kitchen garden (one of my...
View ArticleTakeaway Malvern
'My Very Local Veg Garden' by Hannah Genders won gold - but was all sourced within a bicycle ride If I’m feeling a little jaded and short of inspiration at this time of year, a little bit as if I’ve...
View ArticleGood things in small packages
Tiny pumpkins for tiny hands: 'Jack Be Little' While we’re on the subject of pumpkins: just look at these little doozies. Those are my ten-year-old’s hands: and they fit quite comfortably into her...
View ArticleHasta la ristra
1: Pick your peppers. These are 'Razzmatazz': they're a little fleshy, though. Thinner varieties like 'Cayenne' dry best You can dry all sorts of surplus veg from the garden. In fact I’d go so far as...
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