May 1, 2025 | News
By Mr Fluttergrub As I write, the cherries are blossoming; I don’t have a lot, just two sweet cherries and four sour types. None are large trees, all are grown in ‘restricted’ form, that is, kept to a compact size by training and pruning. The form I use is the fan,...
Oct 31, 2024 | News
The leaves have been falling for a while now. At first it was just a few spiralling down, puffed about on gentle breezes. A few weeks later there were lashing gales and autumn suddenly accelerated. Gusts sent flurries of leaves spinning through the air and scuttling...
Feb 1, 2024 | News
Rhubarb talk Rhubarb is often a maltreated vegetable (it is technically a vegetable, although I usually consider anything that can be eaten with custard a fruit) consigned by many gardeners to an odd corner where little else will grow. I must confess to being a...
