What's happening this month?
I'll be guiding you through the seasons and sharing my ideas and experiences to inspire and help you get the best from your garden or plot each month.
Join me for all the latest news and advice.
12th August 2024
The mantra of August. Water, weed, harvest, repeat! Sunshine and warmth is in abundance. Harvest after harvest keeps coming in. The kitchen is...
24th July 2024
July is the starter of a delicious 3-course-calender-meal. On this menu, the apéritif (month of June), has warmed the palette and stimulated the soil...
14th June 2024
The delightful month of June arrives. Bringing in the hope of happy harvests. Although this year, June feels more like we’re still in the month of...
7th May 2024
As the month of May swings by. It never arrives empty handed. Blossom bursting in the trees, crunchy colourful salad crop to pick and May even...
2nd April 2024
As the saying goes… April showers, May flowers. Well in our case. For the whole of winter, it’s been raining for days and days. Let’s not shed...
1st February 2024
Flowering non-stop until the frosts, dahlias are probably one of the best value plants. Nothing else will give you the same flower power for the few...
1st January 2024
The wildlife in our gardens is often the wildlife we get to observe most closely. A glimpse of bird gobbling berries and rooting for worms in the...
1st December 2023
With the 21st of December being the shortest day of the year, any seeds we sow now will soon have the gradually increasing day lengths to wake them...
3rd November 2023
September and October are the best months to plant most spring bulbs, like daffodils, crocus and hyacinths. But now as we enter November, this is the...