After losing our overwintering broccoli three years running to the minus eights and tens of unseasonably cold winters, we decided it was time to look for a new variety. So we consulted Messrs. Thomson & Morgan and found they had an ultra resistant variety that had been tempered on the glacier fields of Northern England and renowned for surviving ( Read more... )

The soft warm days of our Indian Summer have finally come to an end. A winter High has slipped in - as sneaky winter Highs are wont to do - and brought with it sharp cloudless days and frosty star-filled nights. If only my telescope still worked ( Read more... )

The strange weather continues. Yesterday we picked ripe figs from our fig tree. In late October! Usually they're ready in August, or early September for us on the northerly fringes of figdom. But late October ( Read more... )