Now October looms and whilst I love the autumn with its fruits and colours I do confess to becoming a little depressed by the nights closing in so fast and leaves disappearing...
Excuse my overwhelming interest in Veryan Show but it is the one local to me that I can enter because I never judge there and a reminder that it is an open...
Now this month is a tale about the ‘Battle of the Acres’. Or more clearly Nine Acres v Four Acres. And it is a tale from last year but worth telling here....
I suspect like me you may have struggled with early spring climatic conditions, twas ever thus! Many vegetable seeds were slow to germinate, young growth was checked in April by cold night...
Many of you will have fed your garden and veg plot now only to find that all the nutrients have been washed away in the heavy rains. It’s a tricky business this...
If it is still raining and blowing when you read this then you will understand why I am almost at a loss as to what to suggest your March gardening jobs might...
I had a lovely walk in January across the beach from Carne to Pendower at low tide and in much awaited sunshine. I don’t get down there often enough and feel I...
I bet you have been given, or treated yourself, to some of those brightly flowering house plants that adorn the supermarket shelves at Christmas. You may not have found too many in...
Ash die back was headline news about 12 months ago and is still very much in the news and although we are free from it Cornwall it has marched westwards from Norfolk...
Sometimes I struggle to find a sufficiently interesting subject with which to entertain you. It is particularly difficult in the winter time when we have been experiencing torrential rains and outside work...