April 2010
Well, after last month’s report I thought we would now be well into the flying season, but the weather has let us down yet again. Whilst we have had some good flying...
March 2010
Well, things have moved on a little since my last report. We have had some warmer days, with temperatures up to 10 degrees on the warmest. This encourages the bees to loosen...
January 2011
Well, what a month! Whilst we (locally) managed to escape the worst consequences of the cold weather, with very little snow (and temperatures that were positively tropical compared with parts of the...
September 2012
I seem to have spent much of August at war with pests. More rain and some warm, damp evenings have heralded party time for slugs and snails. They seem to appear from...
August 2012
August is a tricky month to write an article and, to be sure that I don’t bore you to death, I usually check over what has been written this month over the...
April 2012
Having bought three different types of carrot seed my customer was about to leave the shop when he turned round and said, ’What’s the knack to growing carrots then?’ If anybody mentions...