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; there was something strange about the perspective because it made the bird look much bigger than their normally neat and petite form.Today I harvested the remaining fruit. I don't know what variety the tree is, but the apples are not very tasty except in crumble

.On the basis that next summer surely can't be any shorter or cooler than the one we had in 2008, I've sent off for some sweet potato slips. I'm hoping that we'll have the right conditions for producing a successful harvest this time around (last year it seemed

keen vegetable gardener and he grows tomatoes and cucumbers in his greenhouse. These and runner beans are his particular passions. Over tea we've compared seed companies and their service, our favourite varieties and tips on when to harvest runner beans

of parsnips for me, as one of Paul's lovely customers, Glyn, a keen allotmenteer from Colerne, popped in with a freshly harvested bag of them from his plot. He reckons they’re the best parsnips he’s ever grown – they’re so clean, white, canker

I've been letting a few crops run to seed this year. I left a few parsnips and a couple of rows of leeks over winter to be harvested as and when I needed them, but there were far too many of them and many stayed in the ground.In spring, the leeks

the constant stream of large winged queens (and the slightly smaller males) take to the air for their mating flight. Up above, the swifts were having a bountiful harvest. I have only noticed the wingless queens this year, after they land and shed their wings

be ready for harvesting.I've got three apple trees on my plot: Fiesta, James Grieve and Egremont Russet. Each variety ripens at a slightly different time, giving me a lovely succession of tasty, home-grown apples. All my trees came from the garden centre

time, our damson tree has cropped. This seems to have been the best year for growing stone fruit in ages - the crop is enormous. Just today we were harvesting damsons, filling trugs to the brim with soft, superbly tasty fruits. It was worth the wait

suitable for using in home-made pesto (to help use up stacks of harvested garlic and basil!). I was so glad I did go, as I found a few more varieties of garlic, including three extremely plump bulbs of my current favourite, 'Albigensian'. I'd recommend

harvest. Then suddenly out they shot. I didn't weigh them but they were all several inches across and just as tasty. I still haven't solved the cauliflower problem, but now I'm fired up with so much enthusuasm, not to mention big-headedness, I feel