We have a new addition to our garden. It’s sitting placidly in the corner like a great green spaceship, working industriously away as we speak. It looks…… Read more “Green Johanna”

We took another step closer to reclaiming our allotment from the ravages of nature last week. One end of it is still a jungle, albeit a tasty…… Read more “Wautoma Cucumber”

A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid. Know the answer to this famous riddle from The Hobbit? Eggses of courses. I discovered…… Read more “Eggses!!”

I can’t get over how picturesque our allotment is. I mean look at it, doesn’t it just seem like it’s out of a film set or something!…… Read more “Private”

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”