Here’s my seed box. It may not look pretty but it is perfectly organised for my needs. I was recently going through our seed collection looking for something to plant over winter (when I say recently that could mean anything up to a year ago). I discovered a complete mess with seeds...

Meet our little dog, Jenny. She is a Spanish dog that we met one day when she trotted past our front door when we were living there. She followed us around for the day which was so cute that we just had to take her in. As no angry Spaniard came knocking on our door we’re pretty sure she...

How can it be that the satsuma and orange trees are teeming with fruit yet the lemon tree has just one solitary fruit I think it would be fair to say it’s a disappointing crop!  Perhaps a good prune will sort it...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I don’t know about you but as much as I love Christmas I do breathe a sigh of relief when it is all over. Both Christmas and New Year were filled with far too much food and far too much mulled wine so all in all it was a resounding success. I’ve...

It was pointed out to me that I didn’t need to plant my lambs lettuce in rows but instead the seeds could be scattered liberally over a patch of ground. Armed with this new information I went and liberally scattered some more seed in amongst my existing neat rows. I’ve just read my...

I am thrilled to report that we managed to complete our olive harvest last week and take our load to get pressed. As usual D and I had a guess the weight competition and as usual my more optimistic guess won. We picked 130kg of olives which gave us a 13 litres of delicious, thick, peppery...