It’s the 1st of October and we’ve just picked some cracking raspberries for breakfast. Nothing strange there you may think – they must be Autumn friuting varieties. Well, yes, some of them are but the best berries have come off what should be normal summer varieties. Next to the raspberries is the strawberry bed. For those who follow our Newsletter, (or if you don’t, see the last two issues here on the… Read More
Continuing our current video posts (or should that be vlogs?), here’s a little snippet of one part of our river, before and after Storm Dennis. We’ll be continuing to vlog this and other aspects of the garden over the next months, so you can see the best of the garden from your armchair. For example, just along the bank from here will be carpeted in bluebells in May, and we wouldn’t want… Read More
Taking a week’s holiday at the end of April really focuses the mind of a gardener. You have to be up to speed before you go, leave the garden in a state that requires minimum attention whilst you’re away, and pray for rain so that all the plants you have sitting in pots awaiting your return to be planted out don’t need watering twice daily. No hosepipes or sprinklers here – extensive… Read More