The summer season is a busy one, particularly when you’re establishing a new garden. We’ve been working hard to fill...
With Vallum’s Vicky Moffitt The purple-sprouting broccoli at Vallum is insane. It’s like being in a virtual reality world down here...
One of my colleagues walked past the polytunnel the other day when I was planting out some winter herbs and vegetables. “I don’t really do greens,” she said slightly guiltily, obviously trying to avoid a gardener’s lecture on the value of eating vegetables. “What about purple?” I said. She stopped....
Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
Oh my goodness…this weather! I’m sure the cherries aren’t usually so early, yet we have them dropping from the tree....
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...
It’s cold outside, but the hens are laying Hello again from Vallum in what’s been a very frosty month. Our gardener Caroline...
It’s been a varied summer weather-wise with more rain than expected, and at times I’ve felt like I’m growing plants...
The birds are doing their best to eat the sprouting kaibroc before us so we are having to take drastic measures in the shape of the return of Harry the hawk. He is handsome, tame and is actually a kite which we tie to a long pole so that it...
Whisper it – spring is here (maybe). The birds are chirping away like there’s no tomorrow and our customers have...
Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
It’s cold and it’s wet but there’s still a lot to do in the Kitchen Garden at Vallum After a mainly dry summer, the rain has arrived just as we start getting into the hard work of moving our growing inside and tidying the outside beds ahead of next spring....
