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A Year in British Cut Flowers
I had great fun last week with Clare West, a photographer who I met last year when she came on one of my growing courses. She had a rather good idea - to visit the farm once a month through the year and photograph all the seasonal jobs.... Take some...
Sweet Pea Grow Along – Part 3
Your carefully sown seeds should be showing some signs of life by now. Remember to keep them cool and bright as they start to grow. The next job is preparing the ground outside, probably not terribly appealing right now unless you are outside the UK! If your ground...
Sweet Pea Grow Along – Part 2
Hello Everyone and welcome to the second instalment of our Grow Along. Hopefully you now have your seeds, composts and deep pots or rootrainers at the ready. Firstly, do not concern yourself with pre-soaking, chitting or scarifying your seeds. I find a...
Sweet Pea Grow Along
A new year and lots of new ideas, I love January - so much time and headspace to day dream about the next season. Fuelled by glossy seed catalogues and home-baked cakes my imagination goes into overdrive. Most of my ideas will be shelved for another year, but a few...
Want to be a Flower Farmer?
It is a question I asked myself seven years ago. I was hundred percent sure that the answer was Yes, but the next question led to a lot more uncertainty – how can I actually make a living growing cut flowers? Over the years many people have attended the growing course...
2013 Seed Collection
2013 has been a vintage year for seed collecting! The weather conditions have been perfect for producing fat, ripe seeds. By the end of the summer I had an office full of paper sacks of seed heads, I could hardly get in the door, let alone wade my way through to the...