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 ...

Tayberry (Rubus fruticosus x ideaus) is a cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry, and is named after the River Tay in Scotland. It was patented in 1979. If there is only space to grow one ...

Onion sets are small, immature onions whose development has been stopped. The onions are carefully stored in climate controlled conditions until spring when they appear in the shops. For the beginner ...

A delicious, frugal radish leaf soup easily prepared using as the primary ingredient, radish leaves which are most often discarded.

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) ...