With a scorcher spring, the garden has never been so full, the badly needed rain came but is also staying…still everything is pretty early, plump tomatoes expected, beans and peas already been picked, outside strawberries appearing on desserts and raspberries due shortly with black and white currants, new red currants only planted this year should…

White pineapple, Mara des bois, Delician, Elsanta, wild red and white, and guariguette, that’s lots of strawberries ! all with amazing different flavours.

one of the coldest July recorded and it shows on anything growing outside. mixed basils seeds in small pots, Morel de Balbis and Coqueret du Perou planted in raised beds and large pots, sow Aztec broccoli seeds. Decided against grow bag this year for some of the tomatoes, got loads of large builders soft plastic…

Hail stones on first of June, weather still pretty cold for season. Massive wind on Bloom’s bank holiday Monday, some of the artichokes were levelled with no hope to put them back up unfortunately. last of scarlet chard and broccoli picked, planted rest of tomatoes and Genoa courgettes in tunnels, last of the first run…

Most tomatoes are in the ground indoor now, ramiro peppers, pumpkins, courgettes and blue kohlrabis seeds are in pots, first white and red alpine strawberries picked, golden mangetout and peas “douce Provence” seeds in ground, planted romanesco, parsnips and different beetroot outside but weather still pretty cold. First attack of red spider mites on strawberries,…

Planted outside broadbeans and purple sprouting broccoli yesterday, picking at present: radishes, coriander and green sprouting broccoli, coming soon: strawberries, peas and mangetout at early stage, different tomatoes, chilies, peppers, beans, mint, cumin, kolhrabi and more at seedling stage.