When BBC America first started broadcasting in the States, I became an instant addict. Sure, I had to put up with the commercials - which were from a really, really cheesy bunch of advertisers - but, hey, I got to see all sorts of shows that I had become familiar with on my trips to your country. Then...
You can see an image of the Sarpo's, including the new introductions, in a blogpost I wrote following the 2009 open day at the Sarvari Research Trust. To say they are in 'a different league', is spot on. Anyone interested in developing their gardening (or indeed their food growing business...
Controversy this week. Marks & Spencer have smashed together two pillars of the vegetable community to launch a sprout/kale hybrid called ‘flower spout’, on sale Monday. The new vegetable (yes, a new vegetable) looks like a blown-open sprout, where once tight leaves now grow proudly into middle distance...
More and more people are growing broad beans. Other veg too, come to think of it. The turgid strength of growing-your-owning has everyone excited, and now public gardens are dusting off crop rotation plans to demonstrate food growing, but is it worth it? Well yes, according to delegates at the PlantNetwork...
I’m off to the PlantNetwork conference tomorrow at West Dean gardens, near Chichester. Industry folk and folk-eses are gathering to swap ideas for best practice fruit and veg growing, and then talk about how botanic/heritage gardens can support the British public growing their own. An ever more important...
Well, it had to happen. There's a dark side to GYO - at least that's what they're finding in the northeast corner of the United States. It's late blight and it has been killing the tomato crop. According to an article by Dan Barber, chef and co-owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone...
Question: Why do worms have five hearts? Answer: Because worms have five lives.… and when one heart stops, the next one starts…. ... the conversation with a group of under 10 year olds about wormeries. The wormery expert felt oddly compelled by the logic, at least until a Doctor Who fan suggested that...
A rumour that the Garden Media Guild was preparing to 'drop' one of its most sought-after awards, the Environmental Award, because 'everyone is a green writer now' caused more than a few raised eyebrows among gardening communicators. Eyebrows reached their limits when the Guild's...
