Plants are absolutely amazing. I’ve always thought that, but a recent visit to the Giant vegetable Championships at the Bath & West Showground was simply awesome. On show were hundreds of obese vegetables, fed to bursting with all manner of secret concoctions, animal manure and goodness knows what else. Read more…
We’ve had a few lovely sunny days recently, so I was totally stunned when I overheard the weather forecaster predicting ground frost the other day. It was still August and the night temperatures were plummeting into single figures, especially in rural areas. Read more…
There’s something in the greenhouse eating my plants. I know there are a few slugs in there, lurking under the pots and capillary matting, I keep hoiking them out as soon as I see them slithering up the greenhouse glass, but it’s not them. Read more…
This week I found some straggly pots of runner bean plants that I had sown back in May, barely remembered to water and had buried under a pile of fleece. Surprisingly they had survived, but more by luck than design. Read more…
