Pulling the latest new vegetable from the Kitchen Garden today took a great deal more effort than I imagined. The nobbly celeriac had put down roots into the ground requiring a deep dig to retrieve it from the plot. I grew these from seed and like all the other... Elegance and timelessness are what spring to mind about black and white photographs. They have a depth of view that colour photographs often don’t convey. Converting colour photographs from colour to black and white digitally can often bring a crispness and... With the wind howling around the verandas and the rain lashing down it’s hard to remember when the sun beat down on the kitchen garden. Even when we didn’t get much sun this summer I would pick those days over what winter is starting to throw at us right... Since I started growing vegetables two years ago I’ve comforted myself that I’m a beginner and that if anything grows is a bonus. It seems that this year my beginners luck has run out as far as Cauliflower growing goes. Unlike the creamy tight balls I... Memories of harvest festival services in church when I was a child have been popping in my head recently. Displays of fruits and vegetables in technicolour glory all laid out in church to celebrate the end of summer’s hard work. I was never in favour of tinned... 