31 May 2021
Much of May has been cold, and this followed a remarkably cold April. The legacy is plant growth a long way behind what one expects at th...
12 May 2021
In gardening one is often comparing the weather and conditions with those of the year before. So far, spring 2021 has been diametrically ...
28 April 2021
Weather rules.This is turning into a difficult spring, with temperatures significantly below average – in particular by night. In the UK,...
15 April 2021
A difficult spring so far, with a lack of warmth and frosts down to -4.5 C here, nine frosts in the last 12 nights. However it has been d...
29 March 2021
Transplanting times are here, but watch out for cold weather too. Plants ready now are frost hardy, such as lettuce, peas, onions and bro...
13 March 2021
It has been a different kind of winter here, somehow cold and damp in a more damaging way than 2018, when we had bitter winds in March bu...
28 February 2021
This is a full on time for a propagation, although also there is no rush to sow tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, sweetcorn et cetera. Spr...
30 January 2021
February looks to be cold. And we have not done much garden work in January… oh wait, I bought an acre of new land, the pasture to south...
29 December 2020