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All is good down in the greenhouse today. Too good. It doesn’t seem right: at this time of year, for the last few years, the greenhouse has been a murky mass of frozen and rotted stems, the door almost frozen … [ Read More ]
I visited the London garden of my friend and fellow writer and blogger Laetitia Maklouf last week, the person I’m going to be when I grow up (and get a bit slimmer and buy some properly fabulous shoes). She is big … [ Read More ]
My greenhouse gets pretty gruesome towards the end of the season. Mine had become quite off-puttingly jungly, filled with collapsed stems, rotten tomatoes and a thriving community of snails. So the other morning I poured myself a big, steaming mug … [ Read More ]
It’s been a mellow and mild autumn, and I have been tricked into not quite believing it would ever turn cold. This is a handy state of denial if you own a greenhouse, as lining the walls and doors for … [ Read More ]
It’s safe to say it hasn’t been a vintage year for tomatoes and I think mine have fared worse than most. A late start, a dull, cool summer, and a decision to leave my bubblewrap up as shading (it seemed … [ Read More ]
It’s such a spidery time of year now that I have had trouble finding spider-free pots for my cuttings. It doesn’t seem like the right time for cuttings, while everything is slowly but surely grinding to a halt. Perhaps it … [ Read More ]
I have just visited the National Plant Collection of Passiflora cultivars at Tynings in North Somerset, and come away with my very own Passiflora edulis. A great number of the passion flowers produce edible fruits, so says Jane Lindsay, who … [ Read More ]
I’ve been visiting my nana’s house, which contains the greenhouse of my youth. My granddad always kept up the greenhouse, which was very much an all-tomato affair. I don’t recall seeing another plant in there, perhaps the odd chrysanthemum, on … [ Read More ]
Gardeners learn by experience, so everyone says, and if that is the case then I should be an expert on brassicas. I have had such calamitous experiences with brassicas that I have now reached the conclusion that they cannot even … [ Read More ]
I normally have such rotten luck with basil – rotting, wilting, keeling over at who knows what – that this year I spread the risk. Rather than rely on the famously stroppy sweet basil for all my basil needs, I … [ Read More ]
