Tag: Grow Your Own
There are few tastes that capture late summer quite like a ripe blackberry. For many of us, blackberries belong to hedgerows: fingers stained purple after an afternoon’s picking,…
There is a particular sound to an orchard at harvest time. The soft rustle of leaves overhead. The occasional thud of an apple falling into the grass. A…
There are few sights in the kitchen garden quite as cheering as the first rhubarb of the year. After spending winter apparently asleep beneath the soil, the crowns…
Fruit tree thinning is a time-honoured technique that gardeners have relied on to nurture healthier and more productive trees. At its core, it involves the careful removal of…
There is a common misconception that the scratchy, beige sponge sitting on the edge of the bathtub comes from the sea. It is easy to see why; they…