About

I was lucky to be born surrounded by beautiful countryside (The Yorkshire Dales) and beautiful gardens.  My Mother always had a lovely garden as did my Gran (she was always delighted that people would stop to photograph it).  I took little interest as a child, but once I owned my first house with some outside space I got caught with the bug. I started by adding to the small cottage walled garden (in Kent) of our last house before moving to our current home 3 years ago, which had a 1/3 acre of head high brambles and weeds.  This blank space has allowed us to grow vegetables for the first time by creating a decent sized ‘patch’ of raised beds, along with new flower borders.  I learnt everything I know from books and the internet and have started this blog to keep a record of my amateur efforts.

There will also be a good mention of food in this blog, mainly things cooked with the garden produce, but also pickling, jams and my odd attempt at baking.  Again, I was lucky to be born into a very food orientated family and so love to cook, bake and stuff anything I can into a jar.  I like to pick mushrooms, make elderberry wine (not very well, no-one will drink it) and sloe gin is a must.  I have 2 small boys who love to ‘help’ (usually by digging up what I have just planted) and a husband who takes no interest at all in the garden except to mow the lawn, I am not sure if this is good or bad?  Either way, I hope you find something of interest in reading this blog, it’s early days so I am still working out a good format but happy reading!