We’ve had a good year for veg, apart from Squash, which was a disaster, not sure why. Probably the delayed Spring which then reduced the daylight hours by the time I planted out the seedlings. Lots of growth, few flowers, no squashes. So I took them out and planted Savoy and Kale.more likely to be a deficiency/excess issue.
Leeks are pulling well.
The cockchafer or the ‘doodlebug’, a nickname later given to the V-1 flying bomb of WWII…
The time is late afternoon, the date is early May, after some heavy rain and…
Our wild flower meadow and orchard is a riot of colour and activity from the…
and the Turkey is already fat! But rather incongruously she is in the garden! Not…
One swallow does make a late Spring. Today, 25th April, bang on target, they have…
It’s ready. It was a deadline to not miss. The cleaners have been in, the…