I love this time of year. Spring and Autumn are – and always have been – my favourite seasons. Long before I discovered gardening I found the sense of change exciting. For so many years September was always the start of something new – moving up a year at school, new courses at University –…
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For the past week I have been trudging up to the allotment under leaden skies, dodging rain showers and the occasional hailstorm, to dig. So it is somewhat ironic that on the first sunny day since 17th February (not that I’ve been counting) I drove up to the plot in the van. One of the…
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