Don’t get me wrong- I am facing the snail and slug slaughter on many of my lovingly sown plants… but something that just seems unstoppable for me are lupins. For many these are a favourite of snaily sluggy buggers… but (obviously tempting fate big time) my lupins remain

Well- it’s been raining again… which meant that my mammoth woodchip delivery was delayed again… but I was at the plot anyway- easily distracted - so I set about upgrading the donated old polytunnel frame into an extension of my fruitcage… once I’d conceded that I did need an

Have to say that the bulb fennel I sowed last year for the community allotment garden is looking amazing!! It didn’t seem to do much last year- but I left it in and look at it go!! I do need to harvest it, as one looks as though it’s going to seed - but man those fronds are

Returning to community growing and the amazing key focus on mental health and wellbeing through social therapeutic horticulture. Welcoming you in this snippet on Sunday to The People’s Patch in Staffordshire and the fabulous Lucy #socialtherapeutichorticulture #wellbeing

First of the spring sown harvest… beautiful breakfast radishes… some of them even made it home! #growyourownfood #saladgarden #allotmentuk

Watch the full interview with the brilliant Manoj Malde with a little behind the scenes lead up to this week’s #chelseaflowershow 2024 and just what it takes to put on a show- as well as last year’s ground breaking Chelsea wedding! The RHS BBC Lincolnshire Garden Media Guild

Don’t forget to tune into The Potting Shed this Wednesday from around 12:25 BBC Lincolnshire where I’ll be talking veggies and then chatting Chelsea Flower Show with the phenomenal Manoj Malde #radiogardener #chelseaflowershow Garden Media Guild

The Summer seems to be here- so it’s time to get strawberry ready! This week’s Snippet on Sunday comes from the strawberry patch! #howtogrowfood #fruitpatch #strawberry #strawberries #peatfree #organic AHS Ltd #sponsored Garden Media Guild

Fabulous to return to Green Synergy in Lincoln, who I visited and filmed as a part of the community growing spaces films back in January. Brilliant plant sale today to raise more funds for the project- with plants down and grown in peatfree compost by some of the groups who use

Oh yeah!! Beautiful white currants doing their thing. I really need to get some secure netting over this area- which is outside of my actual fruit cage! They’re just so sweet… the birds completely concur! #softfruit #whitecurrants #growyourownfood #berries #fruitgrowing

Why the close up in my asparagus? Just me checking for - and seeing no signs of- asparagus beetle. Infested with them two years ago- cleared of them last year and so far so good this year! (With no chemicals!)
#asparagus #asparagus beetle #organicgrowing

This week’s snippet on Sunday is really looking at potting on some of our seedlings- now that the weather seems to have skipped over spring and gone full on into summer! I’m still a little suspicious (possibly wrongly so) about planting them directly outside just yet- but this

Great to see the mycelium network is in full swing around the radicchio, which is great news now that the weather has heated up! It proves that the mulching and no dig is working meaning happy soil and happy plants! #nodig #mycelium #organic #peatfree #growyourownfood #allotment

Another beautiful day and it’s great to see the successional sowing of the broadbeans is doing its thing… lots of gorgeous flowers on the earlier planted out and the emergence of the direct sown… have a fabulous gardening day #broadbeans #successionalplanting #allotmentlife

Why should we grow our own carrots- how do we grow our own carrots and how can anybody do it whilst avoiding pests? It’s time to get more seeds directly into our growing spaces! #carrots #growyourownfood #sustainablegardening #peatfree #sponsored AHS Ltd Garden Media Guild

Need to get on with the potting on of my seedling… in the meantime I’m giving the tomatoes a little handshake, building up their resilience and replicating breeze - maybe a bit of a tough breeze here to be honest- but building up stronger stems! #tomatotuesday #tomatoes

Community growing across the country brings so much inspiration, but who inspires the inspirational? This week we are extremely lucky and fortunate to be able to share Edible Bristol and the very inspirational Sarah Venn, who is very much in our thoughts. #communitygrowing

These babies are looking good…. Still in the house and keeping warm. It’s not just the nights which are cold at the moment ( it’s April- frosts happen) but the days are seriously not warm either… come on spring- where are you???? #squashes #pumpkins #cucumbers #curcubits

Celebrating Earth Day 2024- right the way down to the smallest creatures who are essential to our whole ecosystem. With this year’s focus on planet versus plastics, the realisation that everything we do impacts every part of our planet for generations. With great power comes