The mysterious allure of gardening

I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed with my greenhouse — although others might. But I have to admit that in…

From greenhouse to… gut?

I hate that phrase you hear on food programmes on the radio: ‘from farm to fork’. But what would the greenhouse equivalent be: ‘from greenhouse to gut’? ‘From greenhouse to gustatory experience’? ‘From greenhouse to getting supper’?
 
 Well anyway, if we had a suitable phrase, we…

At last: this is what a greenhouse should be doing

The caulis are coming

Yesterday my eye was drawn to the window by a sudden bright light in the garden. The sun had come out on January 30th.

Parsnip surprise

This is the first time I’ve grown parsnips. They seem to be doing well, although I probably haven’t given them enough space, letting them squeeze together in a couple of pots.

Getting out into the sun

It’s May 7th, the sun is out, and it’s hot too.

Last weekend, I did a bit of ‘landscaping’ around my greenhouse. Well, I built a little path to the door and turned a small square around it that wasn’t quite lawn or flowerbed, into flowerbed. This was thanks…

Where’s that greenhouse effect?

I know that conditions in a greenhouse in South West London in early May aren’t exactly like the tropical rainforest. But I thought my new greenhouse might at least grow things as well as they grow on the window-sill in the kitchen. Not so far.
 
Here is my first crop…