Learning to love broad beans

Learning to love broad beans

Virgil Evetts Why did it take me so long to discover broad beans? I’ve spent most of my life with a head full of funny notions about them being horrid, farty things favoured mostly by the old and enfeebled.  If … Read more »

Budding Love: Spring at last!

Budding Love: Spring at last!

  Virgil Evetts My garden is awash with the heartening signs of spring right now. One peach tree is already covered in tiny, fuzzy peach-letts, another is bursting into blousy pink bloom.  My plum tree is a froth of honey-scented … Read more »

The Kitchen Garden

The Kitchen Garden

While I am a complete novice gardener, my year old vegetable garden has so many merits that I am wondering how we ever lived without it. I love the fact that I can walk out each day and pick fresh … Read more »