Autumn winds and Scythes of Ash
We have survived the violence of winter storms, bringing copious quantities of rain! It's almost the end of the gardening year. All the...
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wllmsutherland
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Autumnal air in the garden
Autumn is certainly the “season of mellow fruitfulness”! We've harvested the plums, beans (runner and french) and pulled up the onions....
wllmsutherland
Oct 7, 20223 min read
Winding down in the garden
It's Autumn in the garden. Time for fungi, rain and autumn harvest. The wonders of nature are manifest in this magnificent rainbow and...
wllmsutherland
Sep 15, 20222 min read
August turns to September
The time for autumn harvest is here as we come to the end of the productive garden season. The rains have arrived too which will boost...
wllmsutherland
Nov 7, 20212 min read
Winter is almost here! November
The winter is coming and things are quiet in the garden but there is still lots of good food to be harvested. It's November and the...
wllmsutherland
Oct 15, 20211 min read
Winter approaches - September
Our harvesting continues as winter approaches. There is a profusion of plums, apples and raspberries whilst the carrots were...
Will Sutherland
Nov 7, 20201 min read
Winter is coming!
We still have parsnips, broccoli and curly kale in the garden. There are still plenty of delicious apples on the espaliered fruit trees...
Will Sutherland
Oct 2, 20202 min read
Autumn clearance!
Yes, it's the time of harvest and autumn clear-ups! Plenty of autotelic activity! There is still a lot to do – hundreds of tasty apples...
Will Sutherland
Dec 1, 20191 min read
Wet, Wet, Wet....
All in the garden is WET, WET, WET!! I can never remember such a wet “back-end”. There are still parsnips and beetroot in the...
Will Sutherland
Oct 6, 20193 min read
September - the Harvesting month
In the Garden (and in the Kitchen) September is a month of harvesting and “mellow fruitfulness”! Every two days I have been picking...
wllmsutherland
Jan 2, 20193 min read
A Day in the January Garden
So what can you get done on a bright cold winter's day in the garden? It took me four very warm and pleasant hours to spread 2 tons of...
wllmsutherland
Dec 11, 20182 min read
AUTUMN PRUNING
So the leaves have fallen and the first frosts have put the garden into its winter sleep. I've scooped up most of the fallen leaves (the...
wllmsutherland
Dec 10, 20182 min read
Save the Future by Composting
Composting and your New Year's Resolution On our small space-ship Earth, the long term future of our human civilization depends entirely...
wllmsutherland
Oct 21, 20181 min read
21 Bags of Parsnips!
All gardeners know there old saying about parsnips - " first in, last out"! So here we are enjoying the true Autumn harvest which...
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