Slight autumnal mistiness – but mild and settled, with today’s activities reflecting subtle seasonal changes. We completed our FEDAGA order for tatties, onions and leeks, sharpened a few tools [...]
When I first heard about this latest book by the award-winning garden designer Anne-Marie Powell, the subtitle immediately caught my attention. For over 25 years I have raided the treasure […]
When I looked into the Caley greenhouse on a Monday a couple of weeks ago I found out the Friday volunteers had been busy repotting the Auriculas! I really like […]
We’ve had two sunny Thursdays. It’s been great being amongst the bounty, though hard going at times, working in high temperatures and humidity. No complaining though! Harvesting, watering and [...]
Two weeks of sunshine have seen temperatures rising and crops ripening. The fruit harvest has really kicked in. Last Thursday (2nd) the team picked punnets of strawberries, black and white […]
It may seem like only yesterday that the allotment crew welcomed George Anderson on to the Caley allotment to demonstrate winter fruit pruning but if you have fruit trees and […]
Thursday on the allotment was full of glorious sunshine for the third successive day. Everything at the allotment seems super-charged – crops and weeds alike. It’s suddenly peak strawberry [...]
It is hard to think that on the 11th June the team abandoned ship after coffee following a valiant attempt at plot maintenance in heavy rain. Then a week later […]
This is one of the most engaging books on garden design I have come across and yet it has no glossy colour photographs or clever grid patterns to entice you […]
