How fantastic it is to see the growth and already to have picked strawberries (which are perfect with Verus Yellow Muscat, by the way).
We are capturing all our rain water and so far have not used the mains water supply once to water the plants. Well, we are on a meter and we need to [...]

 Now that the soil is no longer hard with frost our first plantings have gone in.

No digging today, then!

Many hours of hard labour and the beds are ready, the picket fence completed and we have planted Field Beans which have germinated surprisingly quickly. These are a green manure to dig back into the soil, not to crop, and improve soil structure. We’ll do that just before our seedlings are due to be planted [...]

Working from home has its advantages. I’ve gone off jogging, but when we’re not humping boxes of wine around, and when the weather permits I’ve been creating four raised vegetable beds. Little by little, an hour here, an hour there. If the garden were a south facing hill with Kimmeridge clay soil I might have [...]