While we’ve been making the most of the autumn sunshine and we’re still picking some fab winter produce – the...
It’s been a varied summer weather-wise with more rain than expected, and at times I’ve felt like I’m growing plants...
After what proved a long, draining and very wet winter, I don’t think I have ever been so relieved to feel the bouff of spring. The hedgerows are spinning my brain as I whiz along the back roads of Northumberland, and my garden suddenly turned into a jungle overnight. Thank goodness...
I’m writing just as we tip into March, and it feels like spring is around the corner – Vallum is...
We have seen an abundance of berries and nuts in the hedgerows around us this autumn. The blackberries have been...
It’s been a funny old summer… hot then wet, then I lit the fire one day because it was so cold in the house. The garden has gone berserk too. It must have been perfect conditions for butterflies – and caterpillars – as I’ve seen quite an array of stripey...
It’s the most exciting time of the year when all the preparation and coaxing of seedlings is coming to fruition....
We’ve been chatting beetroot today. All things from baby beets boiled in the pan to bigger ones roasted in the...
The passage of autumn into winter always feels to me like a slowing-down period; a time for reflection. Everything is slowing down, it seems, not just me, and I find it harder to tap into my energy because my instinct is to be still. Which is fine, only I also...
Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
I think that when the sun is out and the countryside is in full green mode, there’s no place more...
Every year I feel myself being pulled out of the doldrums of The Long Brown Northumbrian Winter by the first signs of spring. Birds wake me up, green buds abound and the lawn goes from static to crazy; oh, for the smell of the first-cut grass. Spring has got to...
