Today we picked Redcurrants, blackcurrants, and raspberries, around 5 kilos of fruit, we put this down to good pruning in the autumn and application of well rotted manure after last yrs poor harvest and a dressing of Blood fish bone in early spring. Follow our calendar to remind you what to do when. Now to making jellies, jams and sorbets tomorrow.

Here is a representative sample of our latest produce, all grown without harming animals or the environment! The key to growing squashes is manure, sun and water +++.

Peaches, Currants, Rasberries, Gooseberries are well on the way now, Broadbeans, First early potatoes, Artichokes, Onions and Garlic are lifted and drying, Tomatoes are ripening for the salad bowl, Peas fresh and sweet, ready to eat. Other edibles now, Cucumbers, Basil, Watercress,Mediterranean Purslane, Lettuce, Rocket.

Goosegogs not just for geese

Where would we be without mint?  No cologne , no mint sauce or dried mint in salad and cheese, toothpaste, mouth washes. but also it’s a universal herbal remedy, wonderful for helping digestion , and flatulance , great insect repellant and an exract of its essential oil ia a powerful antiseptic.

spearmint