`Better late than never’ is, all too often, my gardening maxim. I still haven’t planted all my tomato seedlings, but this month is the last chance to get them in the ground. Up to a point, lateness can be passed off as strategic `staggering’, to avoid gluts. I planted some `Bloody Butcher’ tomatoes back in…
Drinking the Summer Garden
December for gardeners is a month of lushness; plentiful rain, warm soil and still-lengthening days. Long twilights and early dawns pottering outdoors are my favourite antidote to the stresses of the silly season. December is also the season for cooling beverages. A few key plants can set you up for a summertime…