Aquadulce Claudia Broad Beans

planting aquadulce claudia broad beans

Aquadulce Claudia broad beans are one of my favourites with their slender pods full of succulent, tender white beans. If broad beans bring back thoughts of tough-as-leather beans that you hated as a child then think again. If picked when they are no bigger than your thumbnail, you’ll find they are completely different. With the […]

Getting an Early Start – Growing Early Vegetables

checking-propagator

If you are trying to extend the growing season so you can put fruit and vegetables on the table for as many months of the year as possible, or perhaps growing within a certain window of time, such as with school gardens where you want to harvest before the end of June when the school […]

Pruning Glen Ample Raspberries

Pruning Glen Ample Raspberries

Glen Ample is a well known spine free variety of self fertile raspberry that produces exceptional yields (up to 1Kg per foot of cane) of firm fruit that have an excellent flavour. I have a small row of them planted in a sunny, south facing spot in my garden. The fruits are a mid-summer fruiting […]

Building a Base for a Greenhouse

dismantling greenhouse

I have been fortunate enough to come across a second-hand greenhouse that was “free to a good home”. It needed dismantling (quite a big job) and transporting to our house (on the back of a large trailer) and needs a few panes of glass replacing but “free” is a pretty good deal!