4th August 2023 Featured, Summer

August sunshine returns? After an incredible amount of rain during the last five weeks, 180 mm here, there is a sudden reappearance of high pressure from the southwest. It’s delightful news. I d

16th July 2023 Featured, Summer

July’s second half in the no dig garden, we need to harvest and replant despite the weather. I see little sign of the cool winds and heavy showers ceasing apart from an odd day or two. Seize tho

1st July 2023 Featured, Summer

This is a key month of the whole year. As well as offering many harvests, it offers the chance to sow and plant many more vegetables. As well as giving more to eat through late autumn and winter, this

15th June 2023 Featured, Summer

Late June, often the weather changes around this time of solstice. I hope so, after five weeks without rain for most of us. Find more details in my recent newsletter, do subscribe if you have not alre

31st May 2023 Featured, Summer

See my newsletter for June with lots of advice for the coming few weeks. It’s a top time for sowing beetroot, carrots, purple sprouting broccoli, autumn cauliflower, savoy cabbage and chicory fo

14th May 2023 Featured, Spring

May’s second half has so much potential for new plantings and harvests. No dig makes it easier because as gross speeds up, we have less time to deal with weeds. And if you have been keeping up w

1st May 2023 Featured, Spring

May 2023 no dig sowings are meeting damp weather. It’s a wet and dull spring here. March and April had the most rain since 2001, and the least sun since 2004. Any lack of light is bad for growth

15th April 2023 Featured, Spring

You can now make many sowings as the weather improves, at last. So far, it’s been a difficult spring for gardening. Too much wind and many cold nights. Above all a lack of sunshine. In England a

30th March 2023 Featured, Spring

March has been remarkably dull, one of the least sunny months I’ve ever recorded, at a time when we are hoping for the first rays of warm sunshine. Nonetheless, it has been mild (nights average

16th March 2023 Featured, Spring

Spring can be joyful, frustrating, beautiful, dour! Much as we love the good bits, we have to accept that there will always be setbacks and it’s good to be prepared. Don’t sow too early an

28th February 2023 Featured, Spring, Uncategorised

No dig early spring March 2023, sow under cover only for now, using the dates I suggest and sow tomatoes 10th March. Sometimes it said that the first day of spring is the equinox. In many ways, this i

14th February 2023 Featured, Winter

Many of us have itchy fingers, waiting to sow seeds, and now is a good time to begin. On the understanding that we are reasonably likely, in temperate climates, to have suitable conditions for transpl

1st February 2023 Featured, Winter

In the UK, we’re just having a few days of milder weather. It’s tempting to sow some seeds! Experience though has taught me to wait, play the averages and increase my chances of success. D

15th January 2023 Featured, Winter

Find garden advice for this time in my recent newsletter of 15th January. Mid January 2022, be ready for the season. Although it’s quiet in the garden, you can potentially be busy with jobs to

2nd January 2023 Featured, Winter

I wish you a healthy and productive gardening year. Photo above is 2nd January 2023. In front is rye for grain. It’s the quietest time, a chance for me  to think website structure. Much as I lo

29th November 2022 Featured, Winter

For no dig gardens, there is not a huge amount of preparation before winter. You may be struggling to find space to spread compost, which is a nice problem when beds are still full of vegetables. We s

30th October 2022 Autumn, Featured

Now is a great time to boost the life of no dig soil with new compost and other mulches, wherever you can find space to spread them. Growth here is still strong after a warm and sunny October with dec

29th September 2022 Autumn, Featured

Growth slows rapidly through October, while the volume of harvests can increase, depending what you replanted in summer. It’s a potentially difficult month yet also rewarding. No dig makes every

30th August 2022 Autumn, Featured

Like most of the year so far, August has been warm and dry with 19C/66F mean temperature. It’d the second warmest August I’ve recorded, after 2003 which was exceptional. That’s now

30th July 2022 Featured, Summer

August starts dry here, after just 3½mm/0.15in rain here in the last four weeks. Lots of lovely sunshine and a pleasant average day temperature of 24C/75F, night minima of 11½C/53F. We are watering,

31st May 2022 Featured, Summer

Summer is underway with tasty beetroot, broad beans, new cabbage and broccoli, carrots and more. It’s a top time for making a lot of compost too. Below I show the rewards of seed saving. and the