NomeGrown

Despite having a long list of jobs I need to get done before the growing season starts again, very little is happening on the plot at the mo...

As well as my usual maincrop of Kestrel potatoes on the allotment, I'm growing spuds in sacks in the garden this year for the first time...

At the beginning of the season I wrote about strategies for coping with drought and hosepipe bans. Hmm. Now, after two record-breakingly wet...

My garlic harvests to date have always been rather pathetic - small bulbs and few of them. But this time round I tried overwintering my garl...

I'm finally starting to face up to the fact this is a bad, bad year for growing. Between torrential rain and scorching sun, and thank...

Come on now, this is getting silly. I know we're in a drought situation (whatever that actually means) but we still need sunshine too, a...

It all started fairly normally. Rain. It's April, after all. More rain. A little hail. I checked on the plants, laid out on the shed roo...