• I like big butts and neatly trimmed bushes…

    Adding a bigger water butt to my garden shed so I can better water its roof garden.

  • Taking the pea

    I found one remaining pea pod, I think something else has had a chew at it though. It rattles, might keep it for next year.

  • Too many tomatoes

    It’s not been a good year for tomatoes. The plants have done well, but the actual tomatoes haven’t ripened at all. They’re just green balls of stomach ache now.

  • Mr Bean

    Beans are easy to grow, but if you don’t plant them in the correct place, they can be a bit hard to harvest. I did put up a nice bamboo frame, but then got mixed up with what beans I’d sown and by the time I noticed, the runner beans had turned into a creeping…

  • An a-maize-ing cornucopia of corn

    This week I discover the sweetcorn has done rather well.