StartFragment Meet John he's been growing vegetables since he was knee-high to a grasshopper. This month he has kindly shared with us what he is growing. "May is the busiest month as we move from the cool spring days into warmer weather and plants really start to move. Pic: Tomato plants, grown in coir pots. The greenhouse and kitchen window sills have been overflowing with the tender plants such as tomatoes, climbing French beans, chilli peppers, courgettes, cucumbers and sq

Hot off the press: we have launched 'NUGs Show & Grow Parties'. As a mum, I find having any kind of 'me time' very precious and spending kid-free time with others adults really invigorates me. I am certain that having a catch up and a giggle over a glass of bubbles (alcoholic or not) is good for your health and wellbeing. It has to be. Modern life and technology seems to be effecting our social lives. Yes we can connect with anybody from around the world remotely but sometime

Last week I finally got round to planting the 'International Kidney Potatoes' that I was kindly given recently. For those of you in the know you know that these are the same as 'Jersey Royals', but as they will be grown outside of Jersey they cannot be called such. Therefore we have renamed ours 'Earlsfield Royals' due to our location. I dug a trench for half of the potatoes and for the other I simply dug holes for each one as Monty Don did recently on Gardeners World. I foun