A journal of our growing adventures in a newbuild kitchen garden on the East Coast of Scotland.
Anyone else absolutely itching for spring? Here in Scotland, the mornings and evenings are stretching out just that little bit longer. There are a few milder days scattered through the week and, on weekend walks with the kids, we’ve started spotting tiny green shoots pushing through. It feels like the garden is waking up and, …
Within my small garden we are always a bit tight for space. I’ve tried growing my potatoes in the ground but I find them to be equally productive in containers so it’s an easy way for me to ensure that I can grow more of the things that I love. A few things to bear …
Partly fuelled by a desire to make better environmental choices (fewer plastic-wrapped bags of compost and making use of our, albeit limited, household food waste) and partly for economic reasons (we spend A LOT of money on compost each year as we top up our no dig beds), we decided to find a way to …
As well as the longer, (slightly!) warmer days, one of the delights of early spring is wild garlic. We’re fortunate to live in an area that has woodlands within walking/driving distance so each year it is readily available to us. We’ve been picking some here and there throughout the month but today we noticed the …