Veggies in the local community garden
I’m super excited right now because I have been very lucky and been given access to dig around in a raised bed in our local community garden in Clapham. Mostly I’m excited to be able to contribute to...
View ArticlePot’s Growing on in March 2015? Keeping seedlings alive and watching the...
With the spring equinox (and a non-existent cloud hidden solar eclipse) done and dusted, Clapham is noticeably exploding into growth right now. The little propagation station we have set up in the...
View ArticleIt’s all grow in the Eden community garden
I’ve been really lucky in recent months to be allowed to use a small 2 x 2m raised bed in my local community garden in Clapham, called Eden. For years it’s been one of my favourite little hidden spots...
View ArticleDesigner Edibles 1: Peas (Pisum sativum ‘Meteor’)
I’m on a mission to grow as many different species and varieties of plants as possible to help with my RHS Level 2 studies. While I am drawn to plants that look good for a designer look, I also want to...
View Article7 easy pickings for grow your own keenos
I’m being thrown head first heading into my second season on the allotment and this year, my mind has turned to my stomach. Quite a different mindset to last year’s “must grow everything possible!...
View ArticleAllotment month 20: it’s in the flavour – new potatoes, carrots, Florence...
Monty Don always says it’s important to pick only what you’re about to eat to reduce the time between plot and plate. James Wong often tweets and writes in the Guardian about the way sugars in...
View ArticleHave you ever seen popcorn flowers?
The popcorn plants on my allotment are (later than normal) finally flowering and I thought I’d share some photos of the flowers. I’m betting most people have never seen popcorn flowers! First, it’s...
View ArticleAllotment month 32: cool as a cucurbit, hot as a herbal
2018 will go down as one of the most challenging years for gardeners, the freezing late blast followed by an immediate and total lack of rain since for most parts of the country. It’s any wonder plants...
View ArticleAllotment Month 33: today is a good day
This was the best day on the allotment all year, a breeze and drizzle, the air warm, everything quiet and the world relaxed. All of the plants I could see had not sprung back into life with the recent...
View ArticleOutdoor mini aubergines for pots and containers in small spaces
Here I show you the small aubergine plants I’ve been growing in pots at home and in a row on my allotment. I love them!
View ArticleGrow your own, change YOUR world
I was reading the BBC’s seven charts on climate change article and one major thing scientists say will offset increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere, preventing global warming, is to eat less meat....
View ArticleAllotment month 45: salad harvest, colourful potatoes and rainbow tomatoes
Yesterday I was busted sighing while hoeing weeds on my plot. I’d just mown everything and thought I was alone but one of the lovely new plot holders who joined this year was there, which was really...
View ArticleAllotment Month 49: growing up
My fourth year on the allotment has whooshed by and during the very wet start to winter I popped down on a couple of dry and sunny days over the last fortnight. As a wildlife allotment it’s a careful...
View ArticleGrowing avocados in London
It’s been widely known that avocados can grow in London for decades, I’ve seen the trees around the city since I moved here in 1999, including two small trees a few minutes from our flat in Clapham....
View ArticleHow to grow purple sprouting broccoli and cook it
It wasn’t until I started growing my own vegetables I even clocked that purple sprouting broccoli existed. In the supermarkets you can readily buy the green types and I had – wrongly – assumed these...
View ArticleHow to grow organic rhubarb and cook it – the tastiest around!
I love rhubarb. I love its flavour and I love how easy it is to grow. I always recommend planting rhubarb before anything else if you plan to grow your own food for these reasons. As a perennial...
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