December vanished in a cloud of cooking and consuming, yet kept us on our toes in the garden with a helter-skelter of temperatures...

We have been blessed by a light covering of snow over the in-between Christmas and New Year Days that are so enjoyable. I have had about...

Back in the sand for a while, and the old carport potager is getting its annual update. I have been cultivating this little corner of...

I am back in the sandpit of Dubai for the run up to Christmas but have a few developments back at Oaklands that I can catalogue in the...

Here we are, already in November, and that panicky feeling of time running out snakes around me. The last month has been an odd...

I was called back to the UK by an illness in the family a couple of weeks ago but once my duties as a carer were done I was able to grab...

Back to Herefordshire after a few weeks away back in the Gulf, and the lists of jobs are multiplying fast. There has been plenty of rain...

The tree is groaning, branches touching the ground with the weight of fruit. We inherited a Bramley apple tree here, the British cooking...

I was a very happy on my last trip back to take delivery of a 1000 strong regiment of English Bluebell bulbs. Last year's bluebell...

It is a year since we sat pouring over heritage apple trees at the kitchen table at Oaklands and selected a number of trees including...

I flew home from Dubai a couple of weeks ago to break up what would otherwise have been another 3 month period of family separation. As...

Acorns and walnuts are scattered across the meadow and driveway like battered Christmas baubles. Any thoughts that countless hazy days...

July has slipped into August, and that odd feeling of racing against the horticultural clock is creeping in. First light is now...

A tempestuous month thus far. Lockdown (or lack of it) provokes fierce debate, face masks assume greater significance than simple...

It has been good over the last 3 weeks to finally get stuck into planting and "working" in the Potager. I have not written much at all....

The solstice has passed and we are in high summer splendour - blazing blue skies, thunderstorms, soft mornings and light nights. ...

I left Dubai on 12 June and ran the gauntlet of heat sensors, forms and four hour check-ins to make it back to Herefordshire in time for...

Happily it is a week of inbound travel. After three months locked down in Dubai by himself, Neil is jumping through the many and various...

There is a small rogue piece of hoggin that that still needs completing in this picture from the Woodland Way into the main raised bed...

We have been talking about the "Avenue" and whether it should be flanked with a row of trained Apple trees or even just some very low...