It’s Big, It’s White and It’s in My Concrete Garden
Growing an entire garden of fruit, veg or flowers from seed each year can be a bit tiring.
Making Wine From Home Grown Grapes #1
I originally wrote this piece under the main title of ‘The Concrete Gardener’ but as I’m going to go for a tasting of the wine I’ve produced tomorrow, then I thought I would make the title a little more accessible. So far...
The Concrete Gardener: Lettuce Pray
It was getting toward the end of the year, my tomatoes were done and the grapes on the vine are finished. What’s left of the grapes are being allowed to shrivel up in the sun to form currants and raisins which I’ll use in the fruit...
The Concrete Gardener: Bombs Away
I’m committed now, I’m going to bomb my concrete garden. Don’t worry (or maybe you’re clapping with delight?) I’m not using explosives. I’m going to bomb my garden with seeds, seedballs to be precise, from the...
Living in Cyprus: Spring Has Sprung
I know, not much consolation if it’s still deep mid-winter where you live, but it’s spring here in Cyprus and all the plants are flowering and there’s blossom on the peach tree. Actually it’s a nectarine but that’s...
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