Summer

A summer of mixed fortune

After the deluge

All the things I’ve messed up

Allotmenting for wildlife

Artichokes, Part 1

Artichokes, part 2

August National Trust-ing

August pickings

August, Perch Hill & Sissinghurst

Birds and bees and bugs

Blackcurrant leaf sorbet

Blossom end rot and the first stick beans

Broad beans and artichokes

Coming into abundance

Cornflowers, broad beans and blackcurrants

Cornish wild flowers

Courgette humble-pie

Dream vs reality

End of the broad beans

Eton vs Grange Hill vs The Hopolisk

Gardening with the enemy

Gooseberry, strawberry & almond crumble

Harvest before the deluge

He knows his onions

Heading to drought?

Hired thugs

In praise of horta

Into the greenhouse

June Bobby broad-bean salad

June in review

June on the allotment

Kent part 1: Perch Hill

Kent part 2: Sissinghurst and Great Dixter

Kiftsgate Court Gardens

Last resorts

Learning to live with chaos

Midsummer allotment

Notes for next year

Now they split! High maintenance tomatoes

Perking up

Planting out

Rain stops play

Reaping what we (didn’t always) sow

Reflecting on a year-round harvest

Risotto primavera

Sausage and (broad) beans on toast

So it’s summer?

Stars of the season

Summer inspiration

Summer rain

Sunburn and black kale

Take a kilo of blackcurrants…

The Brassica Protection System

The early August allotment

The early June allotment

The floral dance

The hop harvest

The July allotment

The July glut

The last day of summer

The tale of the stunted seedlings

The tip of season’s change

The trendiest weed of all

Thinking ahead

Urban foraging