Posts under ‘herbs’

I’m pretty relieved January is over. It really is the most boring month of the year, and come February, there’s hope that your shoes won’t forever be full of rain and your hair won’t ping into a horrible, frizzy halo (or that might just be me). So now the new gardening season is on the [...]

I challenge you to find a cooler garden retailer than Seed Pantry. They are a brand-spanking new business who are keen to get urban gardeners growing, however small their garden or balcony. When I first saw their ultra-stylish products, I started to get very excited about what this means for balcony gardening. From veg patches [...]

If you’re writing a list of resolutions today, the F&F list of monthly chores for the garden would be a good place to start. They’ll last far longer than that guilt-inducing gym membership or abstaining from chocolate. And they’re much more fun, as well.
Click here for January’s jobs. If you’ve got any of your own [...]

Oh why would you buy a pasty, bland pumpkin after eating this homegrown specimen? As I cut these fruits open, I could see the sugar seeping out of their flesh. I drank in their sweet scent, chopped them up,  roasted them on trays with a dash of sunflower oil, and made them into sweet, nutty [...]

As you know, a beautiful vegetable garden is just as important to me as a productive vegetable garden. And one of the key plants is coriander. In cooler months, this herb keeps its head down in the vegetable patch, good for cooking and deterring pests such as carrot fly. But come hotter weather and the [...]

If you’re lucky enough to be outside and enjoying the weather today, here’s a list of jobs for July.

Some gardeners have an extraordinary ability to make even the most mundane tasks look magical. Take Susy Morris. Her small Ohio garden - better known to readers of her gorgeous blog as Chiot’s Run - is groaning under the weight of food for the kitchen, yet singing with golden sunlight.
It hasn’t been an easy ride [...]

There’s still plenty to be done in the garden, even if you just fancy melting in a deckchair, so read our jobs for June to keep up with your flowers and veg this month.

Pick up a copy of this month’s Gardens Illustrated, and you’ll bag a packet of bronze fennel seeds as well. It’s no secret that we love this plant, and not just as a herb. Try growing it in your herbaceous borders as a backdrop to strongly coloured flowers such as poppies, or with bold-leaved ligularias. [...]

Even though chives are a widely-grown perennial herb, their common uses in the kitchen are limited mainly to potatoes. This is a shame as this member of the onion family is far more versatile.