I come before you today with some good news. Yesterday I wrote about my one visit to the allotment so far this year and the destruction that the weather had caused. Well, that exciting adventure out was about 10 days ago and writing about it got me excited about growing stuff again so, with the sun shining and an afternoon off, I wandered on down there again.

Is spring in the air? If you judge these things by the actio...

I love this time of year. All the hard work that you have put in is literally bearing fruit (and veg). Just yesterday, for instance (and I use it as an example because it was a really good day) we bought home onions, peas, mange tout, 3 types of bean, radishes, lettuces, cucumber, courgette (anyone want a courgette by the way?) beetroot, carrots and my special prize, more on that later. Basically at this time of the year we can f...

Just because it is cold and wet (really wet) doesn’t mean that nothing is happening at the allotment.

 Well, when I say the allotment I really mean my kitchen and back garden. I was supposed to go and plant some seeds today but the rain was so hard that I decided against it. The plan involved early carrots and salad things (spring onions, radishes, salad leaves) under my ugly but useful plastic cloches but the weather put pay to t...

Up and out bright and early this morning and I had a plan. Not only...