Wet spell has not stopped the gardening Despite the mixed weather (we’re squelching around in our wellies with the sun...
Enjoying the fruits of our labour In the few spare minutes we get at this time of year it’s great...
While we’ve been making the most of the autumn sunshine and we’re still picking some fab winter produce – the arrival of darker nights gives me a chance to write and introduce myself. Ten years ago my husband Bob and I completely changed our careers – in catering and technology...
Some years ago, I saw a crowd funder for a new type of beehive developed by farmers in Australia. Their...
Vallum Kitchen Garden is awash with colour It’s been a long time since I shared news from Vallum Kitchen Garden with...
What a summer we had! The heatwave meant the crops were in remarkably early, allowing the farmers a more sociable summer than usual. Meanwhile, we enjoyed a really good boost to the season, so we were spoilt for courgettes, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, radish, kale, squash and more – and the...
It’s so cold we barely want to go out in the garden and pick at the moment. But the bonus...
Vicky Moffitt of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
I don’t know what the weather is like when you are reading this but I am writing this column during a full-on heat wave! This morning I went to walk the Whiplington (half whippet, half Bedlington and far too posh a name for my scraggy lurcher!) round the pond at...
I once grew so many flowers on my allotment that the bad-tempered judge of the annual prize spikily remarked that...
We have seen an abundance of berries and nuts in the hedgerows around us this autumn. The blackberries have been...
After a beautiful February when I dusted the moths off my denim (almost) mini-skirt, today, at the back end of May, it’s so cold I can barely think straight. Mark, who is taking over our Kitchen Garden, has planted rhubarb and gooseberries in the raised beds and last year’s chard...
