Eggs galore, but no kitchen.
Our eight hens are laying beautiful brown eggs at last, though some seem to prefer to make their own nests on the compost heaps or under the conifer hedge rather than use their neat wooden nest boxes. I suspect the main reason is the onging henhouse power struggle in which the large, dominant hens evict […]
And then it was autumn…
I’ve been away since Monday, filming the Gardener of the Decade competition at the Eden Project. No more on that of course for now – it’s scheduled for broadcast on the 12th December. But while I’ve been away autumn has sneaked in. A cool mist trailed over the garden this morning, pulling the spiders webs […]
Fallen leaves are the finest treasure a gardener can have, the raw material for the black gold that is leaf mould. Some magical alchemy of dead leaves, fungi and time produces the sweetest, cleanest, softest compost possible. And you can’t buy it – you make your own or go without. On Wednesday we filled old […]