Just-a-seedling Gardener

Bashful Basil

Bashful Basil

  Basil and I have a love-hate relationship. The herb I mean.  I love it but I kill it with worrying frequency, and it hates to grow beyond about a...

Bashful Basil

  Basil and I have a love-hate relationship. The herb I mean.  I love it but I kill it with worrying frequency, and it hates to grow beyond about a...

daffodils on windowsill, yellow petals with orange corona

Wet weather cheer

Spring bulbs. I love ‘em. Mostly because they are so EASY! Someone else has planted them. I do nothing, then they appear, like little heralds of spring, in all their...

Wet weather cheer

Spring bulbs. I love ‘em. Mostly because they are so EASY! Someone else has planted them. I do nothing, then they appear, like little heralds of spring, in all their...

What to do, what to do

But I LOVE fresh carrots (a lot like Peter Rabbit in that regard) so I think I will try again, but what to change? I might set aside a small...

What to do, what to do

But I LOVE fresh carrots (a lot like Peter Rabbit in that regard) so I think I will try again, but what to change? I might set aside a small...

Bird's Beak and Pig Skin

Sometimes, things have just gone too far into wrack and ruin to save… like overdone pasta, my post- Christmas body, and also some of the fruit trees in my garden....

Bird's Beak and Pig Skin

Sometimes, things have just gone too far into wrack and ruin to save… like overdone pasta, my post- Christmas body, and also some of the fruit trees in my garden....

Fawlty flowers

I love to cook. With fresh ingredients, making things from scratch. This is why I have designed a herb stand in my kitchen, filled with growing, fresh herbs I can...

Fawlty flowers

I love to cook. With fresh ingredients, making things from scratch. This is why I have designed a herb stand in my kitchen, filled with growing, fresh herbs I can...

trusted variety, favourite with children in lunch boxes, reliable for amateur growers in back gardens, mid sized cherry tomato Gardener's Delight

Novice Gardener's Delight

Tomato plants have a really distinct smell. There is something inordinately pleasing and earthy and, well, fresh about the smell you get if you gently rub your hand on the leaves of...

Novice Gardener's Delight

Tomato plants have a really distinct smell. There is something inordinately pleasing and earthy and, well, fresh about the smell you get if you gently rub your hand on the leaves of...