Yeah, well, I had to give it some kind of title and the spade looks faintly sinister. ‘Installing fake Victorian rope edging I found in a skip’ didn’t really cut it. It’s true though. My street’s being ‘regenerated’ at a rate of knots and skips keep appearing, filled with all kinds of stuff that is SO…
Category: Landscaping and maintenance
Project Patio Part 1
You know that bit in Apollo 13 where a guy says ‘you’ve got to make this’ – he shows a sophisticated piece of space kit – ‘out of this’ – he tips a cardboard box of old junk onto a table…? Well that’s sort of how I feel about my latest project. Allow me to…
Meet the Plot
It’s occurred to me that I quite often witter on about different beds on my allotment – leaving everyone to work out what the hell I’m on about. The monster? The horse-trough? The triple? So here, at the start of the season, when everything’s nice and clear, is a short spin around the country estate….
Squeezing a Conservatory…
…into a teeny-tiny space. I live in a traditional Victorian terraced house (on the same steep hill as my allotment) and although I have always dreamed of a conservatory, frankly unless a) I’m happy to lose ten feet of my thirty-foot garden, and b) I win the lottery, it’s not going to happen. What I DO have,…
The Best Mini Greenhouse in the Universe
I’ve long wanted a mini greenhouse. I don’t have the room or money for a full-size one, but a little place for overwintering larger plants or bringing on warmth dependent veg like aubergines was on my wish list. I’ve been collecting rubbish wood/fittings/interesting stuff out of skips for the past year, and now I’ve nearly…
Spring Cleaning
What’s a beautiful, sunny April day for if not for the sheer nerdery of cleaning out your shed? All winter long I’ve been taking stuff out in a hurry, shoving stuff out of the way to get to it, using it, then just chucking it inside. And c’mon, admit it – so have you. By…
The Event Gardener 