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Asian or 'Nashi' Pear: 'beautiful'

Just a celebration really! On our heavy clay soils ordinary pears do really badly...

OUCH!

It is very hot but I thought at long last I should get some grass cutting done. ...

My Kiwai is fruiting!!!

If like me, you've struggled to grow kiwi fruit for years without success, take heart....

The 'Potager' in June

June is the best time of year in our garden. The weather is really beginning to...

Miscanthus giganteus... a magnificently useful plant.

Four years ago I bought a pot of Miscanthus giganteus at a garden sale. It's now...

Polytunnel Regained

Finally the weather has changed and Wednesday was a calm, warm and sunny day. A few...

"La grande tempête": my polytunnel takes to the air and the greenhouse comes crashing down.

We had what I thought was a terrible storm on Thursday night. When we got up I...

2009: Another summer of drought, but not all bad

I thought I would write an update on my original 'blog' when I bemoaned the effects...

Managing two hectares of wilderness

We've been struggling for six years to carve a decent garden out of two hectares...