Aubergine Progress

I started off the aubergines so late last year (naively thinking that, even though the packet said sow in March, July would be fine!) that the plants only got to about 8cm tall before autumn. This year, given the heated propagator we got for Christmas I decided I'd really go for them as they're one …

Courgette Comparison

This year we've grown three different types of courgette (defender, cocozelle and tondo from left to right in the photo). With varying degrees of success so far - mainly down to our lack of knowledge on the best way to care for them! Having grown a few last year which produced some fruit but all …

Collecting Chive Seeds

This seemed a quick win in my 'collecting seed from crops to grow for 2019' ambition for this year. Although I'm not sure I'm really counting my herbs as crops.... but anyway.... I left a lot of the flowerheads on the chives and they've dried in-situ and you can clearly see the little black seeds …

Curly Kale

Finally started planting out the kale - it seems quite late in the year! Same as last year I've surrounded the base of the plants with crushed eggshell (to deter slugs) and covered the whole area with netting (to deter cabbage white butterflies) which seemed to work well. Last year we did have some problems …