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Seasonal Recipe: Courgette Tzatziki

How's your veg growing this year? Here at VP Gardens , it's one of the strangest of seasons…

Apple care

There's been a phenomenal fruit set on my apple tree - a combination of early warmth at the rig…

Testing Times: Tomatoes

I've run a couple of tomato trials this year. The first is a revisit of the biochar trial wi…

Extra virgin olives

I harvested last year's olive crop from my patio allotment over the weekend. As you can see the…

The seed tin of happiness

Like many gardeners, Easter is my starting gun for major gardening activities and also like many of…

Seasonal Recipe: Tomato and squash au gratin

This recipe has come quite a long way since I first made it in August when my brother-in-law and wi…

Garden Bloggers' Blooms Day: Helianthus 'Lemon Queen'

Helianthus 'Lemon Queen' is a late summer stalwart on my patio. I have a longish narrow b…

Sunshine and Sunflowers

I'm a little late with my #NationalGardeningWeek post this year because my head's been f…

The Allotment at Home: Some Progress

I've made a guest appearance this week on the Thompson & Morgan (T&M) blog with som…

Review of the Year: Tomatoes

I ate my last home-grown tomato for breakfast this morning, so I thought I'd have a look bac…

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