What you see here are two overgrown courgettes (zucchini) weighing over a kilo each. They are two out of four, all the same weight, that I picked from my allotment yesterday. The other two, used in their entirety, I magically reduced into what you see on the plate.
I kid you not. I didn’t have [...]

Seasoned gardeners will no doubt have already been pottering around getting the growing year off to an early start, especially since the UK spring has arrived mercifully early. However, if you are a novice or gardening lightweight, there is still plenty of time to get cracking on your 2009 harvest. Whether you’ve got an allotment, [...]

A new garden concept comes to the city

On a recent trip to Amsterdam, I was introduced to the quintessential Dutch staple - Stamppot

It’s been a thrill a minute down at the plot this week. Firstly, the asparagus is emerging at a rate of knots. It’s torture, though, as the luscious-looking green spears must be left on the plant this year. We planted one-year-old crowns last year and according to my various manuals, they mustn’t be harvested until [...]

Fred looks after three plots adjacent to ours. He’s retired, so he’s got a little extra time on his hands. He goes back home to Jamaica for the winter, but now he’s back and hard at work. Last year we observed with interest how he planted sweetcorn interspersed with pumpkins and courgettes, with bean plants [...]