MG Alona hosted a fruit tree pruning follow up, letting MGs Colin, Susan and Gloria loose on her own apples and pears! And her neighbours’! Plus she cooked lunch and gave away primroses, leaf spinach, and had prepared raspberry and thornless blackberry cuttings. Thanks, Alona, for your generosity – sounds like a heart-warming Sunday morning [...]

Mince pies and home-grown veg are on the menu this month as we wish you Happy Christmas and a thoroughly lovely New Year. We’ve teamed up with the festive folk at ‘The Compost Heap‘ to celebrate this season’s holidays in the only way we know how – with a runner bean celebrating the good life! [...]

Leafmould is a free source of some of the best organic matter. What’s more, making it and using it is best organic practice!  Leafmould makes a great mulch and when it’s mature and sieved, and you can add lit to loam to make a great seed compost.  Another plus is that  you get loads of [...]

MG Pamela is getting more and more experience working in schools.  Read here about working with two boys, and see also the recent case study here I am at Fenstanton school with two eight year old boys, who attend garden club as they have difficulty in the classroom. The support staff have selected two boys [...]

It is difficult to find a Saturday in London that is free. We chose 12 November for our Cressingham Gardeners open day/ leaf mould class. A number of people had said that they would come, so it was disappointing that so few people turned up, as I had cooked soup and bread for about 20. [...]