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Bees, tomatoes and marigolds
Hello again! Here we are in mid-February already and I’m getting that all too familiar feeling of the year speeding up – January just drags and drags, then you hit February, you start sowing a few...
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Tomatoes, a new book, and community woods
Hello! How has your week been? I expect you, like me, have mostly spent it watching the world wake up: there is growth everywhere now, in the seedlings you’ve been sowing on windowsills and in...
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Mini caulis, red cabbages and five year old broccoli
Hello again! Have you had a good week? I do hope so. I am at that point of dissonance: the mismatch between the spangle of spring flowers scattering heart-lifting flecks of colour across banks and...
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Trees, mountains and rivers
Hello! This week’s newsletter is a bit of a departure from the usual – literally and metaphorically, as I’ve left my little veg patch behind me far to the south, and I am now in rainforest country....
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Almond blossom, new potatoes and hungry mice
Hello again! It may be raining, it may be freezing cold, but it is impossible not to have a smile on your face at this time of year, especially if you’re a gardener. Pink blossom is spangling my...
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Un-nibbled peas, flowering strawberries and broad beans
Hello! How’s your week been? Don’t you love this time of year? I am planting and sowing, sowing and planting, and everywhere you look there are flowers and seedlings and buzzy bees and joy. I adore...
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Beans, sunflowers and not enough hours in the day
Hello to you all! I hope your gardening week has gone well. My veg patch is filling up steadily as all those seeds I sowed so hopefully back at the beginning of March under cover have miraculously...
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Dandelions, Brussels sprouts and new potatoes
Hello to you all and I hope you’ve had a great gardening week! I am feeling the panic rising now as May strides ever onwards and there are still seedlings un-pricked-out, seeds unsown and pots...
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Peas, apple blossom and self-sown chard
Hello! How has your gardening week been? Mine has been mostly full of light and warmth, bar a few spectacularly thunderous downpours (mercifully short-lived). I’ve been gardening in a t-shirt with the...
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Rainforests in Newcastle, vanishing brassicas and winter squash
Hello everyone! How has your gardening week been? I am writing this from the other end of the country: I have run away to Newcastle upon Tyne. Just for a weekend – I wouldn’t abandon my garden for...
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