Some years ago we moved to a new house which had a tiny suburban garden giving little room for growing vegetables, mainly a small herb bed and some salad crops. Then I realised there was an allotment ...

Greenhouse repaired after storm damage, Pruning the back border. Lots of shredding and found a birds nest in the bush ...

Radish leaf soup, appears in various cuisines as a peasant or rustic dish. Its origins are deeply rooted in traditional agricultural communities where minimizing waste and making the most of available ...

Welcome to my allotment garden diary. Quite simply this is a record of our success and failures growing our own, gardening and trying to live the good life. A diary is actually a really useful tool ...

Well we just had a patch of brilliant weather. Dry, bright and sunny but not so hot you end up hiding in the shade. Having said that, the polytunnel was a bit much for me when it hit 30 degrees.

The sweetcorn in the polytunnel was a disaster but the sweetcorn outside actually came good. This is the first time I’ve succeeded with outdoor grown sweetcorn here. The first year here I planted out ...

In the UK, allotments are small parcels of land rented to individuals usually for the purpose of growing food crops. There is no set standard size but the most common plot is 10 rods, an ancient ...

You can grow any type of tomato in a greenhouse but the bush (also known as determinate) varieties take up a lot of valuable floor space whereas the cordon (also called pole or indeterminate) ...

Bracken has been shown to cause stomach cancer in cattle and horses and has been implicated in causing cancer in humans. Experiments have also shown the spores cause cancer in mice and so are assumed ...

I send out a gardening newsletter to members with information that I think might be useful or interesting. Seasonal tips, changes to the web sites, exclusive offers I’ve negotiated for us and general ...