Gardening bore

...but now we have this.   Taking multi-functional living to new extremes   Which is, in its way, pleasing to look at. But it's less pleasing when I get up for the loo in the middle of the night and have to inch my way along the bottom of the bed,...

Winter is easier to bear when you have a garden. Gardening is optimistic, it’s looking ahead to spring and summer. It’s organising. For me, gardening involves planning the veg garden and buying seeds in early winter. That, in turn, involves writing lists and...

‘Let’s build a greenhouse for the tomatoes,’ we said. ‘Just a small one,’ we said. You might wonder why, when we live in the land of hot summers, we felt such an urge. Well, reader, last year we had a pretty wet summer (warm, but wet and stormy) so Rob hastily...

This one goes out to Mike, who will soon be back in the gardening groove. Have fun, sir. You might remember last year we overhauled the veg garden: creating raised beds, laying a stone path and adding a rustic stick fence. We were pretty pleased with it at the time...

Last year was our first summer growing veg; our first summer with a garden of our own. It’s brilliant when you eat your first home-grown courgette (not so much when eating your two-hundredth home-grown courgette). But, man, gardening is a lot of hard work. Weeds...