Found these hairy blighters nomming my tomato plants today. Any idea what species they are?

The home we bought when we made the massive leap from city to country life was a newbuild. This has many advantages, but the garden we got…… Read more “Raised Beds 1”

My first tomato fruit has formed, and though many of us would have put our money on it being a good old Gardener’s Delight, it’s Costoluto Genovese…… Read more “Costoluto Genovese vine tomato”

One of the great advantages to having an allotment over a garden is that you get to nose at what everyone else is doing. To a gardening…… Read more “Touts les manges (touts)!”

Soooo we returned to the allotment the next day and found this bad boy: It’s insane how fast they grow – left any longer and I think…… Read more “Courgettes are go!!”

Stand by your beds!! The first courgette is almost ready to be harvested. It’s certainly living up to its name, Verdi di Milano, translating as “Green from…… Read more “Courgette”

Took another step closer to garden glory this weekend – managed to snatch some time in between driving unreasonable distances and bridesmaiding to construct a flatpack trellis…… Read more “Trellis”

Excuse the terrible pun, but we really did achieve a lot yesterday. We now have a sort of….tomato vineyard? We spent a good three hours digging over…… Read more “I feel good from my head….TOMATOES!!!”

(Continuation of https://bryonywillis.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/elderflower-cordial-1/) 24 hours later we drained and bottled it. We filled up 4 of the Ikea stopper bottles and had 1 wine bottle full to spare.…… Read more “Elderflower Cordial 2”