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Going to seed
Drying in the sun and just about ready to pick for next year's seed I suppose it had to happen one day. My prize crop for the year – the first sowing of ‘Ambassador’ peas – has stuttered, faltered and...
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The Coriander Club
Coriander seeds are ripe when they're papery brown with tiny rib-like ridges Happy September! It takes a bit of admitting but even fanatical gardeners can find they hit the doldrums in August. It’s my...
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Let the harvest begin!
The Great Potato Harvest of 2010 is well under way: my hands are blistered, my back is aching and golden tubers dance through my dreams. There is much talk of potatoes as a ‘pioneer’ crop, used to...
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Pick of the month: September
Squash ‘Yellow Scallop’ More of a sculpture than a vegetable: the prettiest thing I've ever grown Ever grown a vegetable so breathtakingly beautiful you make a detour by its patch of your vegetable...
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Starting over
My new veg garden, slightly larger than an allotment at about 3000 sq ft, but long and thin - this is the far end I got a shiny new vegetable garden this week. Moving house – and more particularly, veg...
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…makes a lot of juice
Apple Day at Barrington Court Growing apples is a dangerous habit, you know. You start with one tree: perhaps a few Bramleys at the bottom of the garden, like I had at my previous house, or the pretty...
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Conflicting advice
'Picardy Wight' is a newly-introduced softneck which should taste fantastic Do you plant your garlic cloves like daffodils or like onions? I debate this with myself every year at about this time, when...
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Recipe of the month: August
Kohlrabi Soup At last, here it is: the answer to all those heartfelt cries of kohlrabi growers everywhere: ‘well, now what do I do with it?!’ This is one of my favourite vegetable soups: just the right...
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Hasta la ristra
1: Pick your peppers. These are 'Razzmatazz': they're a little fleshy, though. Thinner varieties like 'Cayenne' dry best You can dry all sorts of surplus veg from the garden. In fact I’d go so far as...
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Pick of the month: June
Pea ‘Oregon Sugar Pod’ To quote a well-known advert for a certain shop which I’m sure used to sell clothing but now seems to be a supermarket for posh people: [cue 1970s lounge lizard soundtrack and...
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