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flavour at all. Is it just me or are plums everywhere particularly tasteless this year? Perhaps the relentless rain and lack of sun have taken their toll, swelling fruits but making them very 'watery'. Good looks aren't everything. It's flavour I want

What a glorious week it has been (with apologies to those in other places who have had torrential rain/snow/hailstones the size of gulls eggs/unseasonal drought etc).Every morning at about 7:15 we walk around the fields - with such clear skies

with the comfrey (Symphytum officinale), following closely behind. They're now all in the shade tunnel. The combination of sun, heat rain and wind is a nightmare. If we leave the herbs in full flower outside, they'll be damaged, but if we bring them in they can

My lawn is bone dry. I keep putting off watering it because it's autumn for goodness sake and it should rain soon. It's looking a bit brown, but I know it will recover fine with the first precipitation. The clouds, however, tenaciously hang

Every morning before breakfast we go for a walk through the surrounding fields. We miss out on Sundays but are pretty conscientious every other day of the year. Except when it is absolutely tipping it down with rain - which, and this is a slight

rain than us. This is a stark change from five years ago, when we last visited this house and the ground was so hard I caught a mole in my bare hands because it was running helpless over the parched lawn, unable to find anywhere soft enough to burrow

the drain in heavily paved areas, putting pressure on our ancient sewage systems. During heavy rain, the sewers can't cope, so water ends up back on our driveways and sometimes in in our homes, or in local rivers, which then burst their banks.I doubt many

Today is a wet, windy, cold, miserable, dreary, murky, depressing, cheerless, uninspiring and downright dingy day. It has not stopped raining and it always seems as if darkness is about to fall. It is the sort of day when only the very dedicated

other insects. This is also why bees are so successful further up mountains and nearer to the Arctic. And although they really do not like the heavy wet of drenching rain, a cool misty morning is hardly any inconvenience for them.Wasps, though, are sun

the weather forecast to see what's in store for later in the week, but with Wimbledon in full swing surely we can expect rain!But if rain doesn't arrive it really is done to the gardener to make up for the shortfall. A friend of mine took on an allotment