Tag: harvest

  • A curve in the path

    A curve in the path

    It feels like a turning point in the garden. We are into the metrological autumn. This week has seen changes: the garden helpers are back to school, and the quotidian tasks of teaching jobs start to dominate. The dry weather has broken in a way which suddenly feels more permanent. We awake to fog, the…

  • Berries

    Berries

    The blackberries are ripe. Behind the vegetable patch we built is a steep bank up to an unruly beech hedge, and our neighbour’s decking. Once this contained some fir trees, of the christmas tree type, not lylandii, but still threatening to overwhelm everything. A first outing for the chainsaw was removing these, but the branches…