It’s all rain in the Kitchen Garden It’s pouring down today – again! After the driest May on record we...
The cold snap hits the Kitchen Garden Can you believe the weather? Snow in May! Thank goodness Mark hadn’t planted...
It’s cold outside, but the hens are laying Hello again from Vallum in what’s been a very frosty month. Our gardener Caroline made the journey over a few weeks ago to start preparing for spring planting, only to find it exasperatingly frozen solid, even by 2pm, despite a beautiful winter sun doing...
In the garden, with Vicky Moffitt Our usual columnist, Caroline Beck, is up to her eyes in the garden today,...
One of my colleagues walked past the polytunnel the other day when I was planting out some winter herbs and...
I once grew so many flowers on my allotment that the bad-tempered judge of the annual prize spikily remarked that it was an “inedible plot’. I offered him a crimson nasturtium to munch on. He refused, his face redder than the flower. But how wrong he was. Edible flowers might...
Rabbits. The very word makes this live-and-let-live gardener twitch with rage. It’s not that I hate them, but I hate...
It’s cold and it’s wet but there’s still a lot to do in the Kitchen Garden at Vallum After a...
…but there’s still work to do in the garden It’s windy, the forecast says the rain is going to get here by noon and the woolly hat is on; autumn is well and truly upon us. Having spent a lot of our time recently planning our winter growing, the time...
Enjoying the fruits of our labour In the few spare minutes we get at this time of year it’s great...
Wet spell has not stopped the gardening Despite the mixed weather (we’re squelching around in our wellies with the sun...
Vallum Kitchen Garden is awash with colour It’s been a long time since I shared news from Vallum Kitchen Garden with you, but that doesn’t mean I’ve had my feet up over the last few months. We’ve had lots of demand for our salad mixes, microshoots and edible flowers; I’m confident...
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