It’s so cold we barely want to go out in the garden and pick at the moment. But the bonus...
It’s been a funny old summer… hot then wet, then I lit the fire one day because it was so...
It’s all rain in the Kitchen Garden It’s pouring down today – again! After the driest May on record we seem to have had more than our fair share of rain in June and the pesky slug is on the slither and after the strawberries! Mark (our grower) has been...
It’s been a funny old day, as Arkwright might have said; only it’s been a funny old several days. Months,...
After what proved a long, draining and very wet winter, I don’t think I have ever been so relieved to...
Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce to the farm’s weddings and events, and Restaurant Pine. Vallum, Military Road, Newcastle, NE18 0LL, tel 01434 672 652, www.vallumfarm.co.uk Chard, chard, chard. Butterflies, butterflies, moths. Grrrr… We like (or we...
Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
Vallum Kitchen Garden is awash with colour It’s been a long time since I shared news from Vallum Kitchen Garden with...
Having just returned from a very relaxing, sea-tastic and majorly foodie holiday in Cornwall it has been quite tricky to get back into work mode. After a wedding for 150 (the loveliest couple) and Sunday lunch for 100 the next day (in three hours) I literally feel like I am...
I once grew so many flowers on my allotment that the bad-tempered judge of the annual prize spikily remarked that...
The cold snap hits the Kitchen Garden Can you believe the weather? Snow in May! Thank goodness Mark hadn’t planted...
It’s the most exciting time of the year when all the preparation and coaxing of seedlings is coming to fruition. There are few greater senses of anticipation than the thought of courgettes freshly picked, grated and served with lemon, feta and mint, and we have beautiful spheres of round courgette...
