Book review: Gardening through the year

A review of Gardening Through The Year by Ian Spence

Sowing the first seeds of the year

Spring around the corner It’s been sunny and frosty for a lot of this week – weather that is beautiful in itself, but that also gives you hope and anticipation of spring just being around the corner. As a result I’ve been itching to get going in the garden and on the allotment, and that […]

Leafmould joy, a new growhouse and a new diagnosis

Leafmould joy We get fresh manure, woodchips and very occasionally leaf mould delivered to our allotment site. You have to be luck to be there when there’s still some left – especially during Covid where deliveries have been much less frequent than before. Today was a lucky day – there was a huge pile of […]

January cold blue sky

It was one of those lovely winter afternoons – a weak warm sun low in the blue sky, casting a beautiful golden light over everything. I took a walk to the allotment, listening to lovely acoustic guitar music on my headphones and occasionally stopping to drink in the big blue sky and feel the warmth […]