A couple of weeks ago I popped 4 Marketmore cucumber seeds in a pot and stood the pot in my porch. Yesterday I noticed that three of them h...

 A couple of weeks ago I sowed some carrot seed in the hope that I might get baby carrots for Christmas.  I'm chuffed to bits to see tha...

 Yesterday I made a big pan of chorizo and vegetable soup as I had a slightly wilting head of shop bought lettuce to use up. From the garden...

 It's been a funny old summer so far. My strawberries have been fantastic but the swede have come to nothing.  The slugs have decimated ...

 I keep forgetting to update this section of my blog because I tend to record all the details on my YouTube channel. We have big plans for t...

 In just over a week the baby ladybirds have gone from being the size of a pin head to the size of an earwig. I love watching them  charging...

 I've been sitting watching a ladybird shed its skin today. I was amazed to discover that they emerge white and over about an hour they ...