Event: The First Asparagus of Spring

The original point of this blog – before the craziness that is coronavirus – was to discuss ‘event’ vegetables: low-yield, high maintenance veg that provided just one or two ‘events’ in the gardener’s life. High-flyers that made just one or two memorable meals that would remain in the imagination long after they had faded on…

Tumbling Bruschetta, Batman!

After the dreary recognition that 70% of my tomatoes had been lost to blight I found myself looking for plus points. Yay! Good, old fashioned, bog-standard Tumbling Tom has come to the rescue. So far none of the window boxes I planted up with Tumbling Tom have succumbed and they’re producing in profusion. To be…