Aerate: Scouser hesitation in the garden
At the publishing company where I work we occasionally get ‘All-staffer’ e.mails. You know the kind of thing: ‘Could people no longer...
Where OAPs Get Their Goat
The best place to hang out on a Saturday afternoon is the big garden centre, it’s just like ‘the mall’ for OAPs… One of the central...
Fantastic Mr. Fox
I don’t object to having wildlife in the garden, I just wish they’d be a bit tidier. This may be the season of goodwill to all men, but...
Introducing New Grumpost*
A few weeks ago I outlined what a titan of the environment I was, one of Surbiton’s foremost eco-warriors and hardcore conservationists....
A shroom with a view
Excuse me for getting a bit mushroom-centric in these posts, but right now it seems to be one of the few things that I can grow...
Champignon roulette
I've just spent a week in Brittany, assessing the kind of gardening effort required when you leave a property alone for three months...
Kew - the Suffragettes
The last time we visited Kew Gardens was a long time ago. Our son Theo was in a pushchair, and as he’s about to ship out to California to...
The Codling Moth fun park
It’s been a bumper year for top and soft fruit in 2015 and Adrian Barlow from British Apples and Pears Limited says it will be the best...
Not caring an Iota?
There was an item on the Today programme this week about bloggers promoting products without making it clear that they had a commercial...
Austria is a windowbox
People come to the UK and marvel at our neat and well-kept gardens. But when it comes to universal tidiness and pulchritude it’s hard to...
