This and That

For the first time since I put them in place three months ago, my water tanks are brimming over. I haven't had to use the tap ...

  I needed something like this book. My jam-making skills are almost non-existent, and so much fruit goes to waste. I have currant...

I've just strung up most of my indeterminate tomatoes. these are the ones which go on growing indefinitely; you take off the bran...

Salad crops are something I admit to knowing very little about. I don’t really eat leaves myself, and my wife isn’t interested i...

Things are finally growing away, apart from weeds of course, which have been doing that for months. Even a pot of alexanders, which I pl...

  A few nights ago the temperature inside my polytunnel almost touched zero, according to the thermometer. Actually I rather think it di...

I live in the middle of Birmingham, so whatever gardening I do is inevitably urban. I have an allotment which I struggle with, s...