Veg patch from scratch

I didn’t have much time this year, so I largely let the plants that self-seeded have free rein. It wasn’t much work and was surprisingly bea...

Last year, slugs and snails devoured all but one of my runner bean plants. So this year I got smart: I started them off in pots in the green...

One of my vegetable beds used to be primarily lawn. And it has made a few valiant attempts to return to lawn. When I first removed the grass...

 There is a hole under the fence between our garden and next-door's, which we have long suspected to be a passageway created by foxes. N...

 I was weeding today and I came across this little chap: I think it might be a newt. I hope I didn't destroy its habitat in my fervent r...

 I have just got back from a 2-week holiday in late June. I don’t normally go away in June, and when I left, it had barely rained for a mont...

 I've had another year where I haven't had much time for gardening. Fortunately, a lot of my back garden is now self-seeding, so alt...