As we head into winter proper, the amount of true gardening we can do lessens, but there are always other jobs to occupy us. Our tools have been well used over the...
With the clocks going back only a couple of nights ago, we are plunged once more into the realm of short days. Those first few times it is dark by 5.30 are...
Despite the little burst of warmth we have all experienced this last week, we are most definitely into autumn now, however you want to define it. The mornings are wonderfully dewy, the...
This is a funny period in the gardening year. Summer is almost over and our gardens are starting to look a little tired, but autumn is not quite here, despite some of...
As we embark on this month’s column, the natural place to start is a look back at last year’s, to make sure we’re giving you something fresh to think about. It was...
Well, what a funny phase we’ve been through recently. Relatively even daytime temperatures, persistently cool nights, thunderous winds (during which one of us was on the Roscoff ferry, getting NO sleep whatsoever,...
Has Anyone Got a Hat We Can Eat? Last month, we talked about pruning and chopping with abandon, hoping the worst of the late winter cold was behind us. The last couple...
This month, as we write Storm Doris is upon us. It was hardly a storm here in Cornwall; more like a Winnie the Pooh blustery day. The rest of the country has...
What a mild and dry winter we have had so far, bar a few days last week., and even that wasn’t bone-chillingly cold. The frost did put pay to a couple of...