Rows of parsley, bumble bee getting busy, a bumper crop of rainbow and purple haze carrots. Just a few of the wonderful things this summer has brought...








Blackcurrant picked over at the end of July, I cut off several of the large fruited stems as I went round the bush.


Mina lobata, commonly known as Spanish Flag.

Lichen wood bundle

Had some pieces of tree branch from a pruned Chinese tree of heaven which are covered in a variety of lichen. I tied them in a small bundle using wire and hung in a tree. Good for insects.

Frog spawn!

I arrived at the plot this morning to find a nice big gelatinous mass of frog spawn. I was so excited, it's my first, I'm so proud. It's been one year since I dug the pond and they're now breeding which is a very healthy sign. Lots of croaking and goings on in the water.

My dog Sky was very interested in the frog activity, couldn't take her eyes off it, like she was watching frogs porn (so sorry).

King Alfred's Cake

Years ago I collected some Ash logs, I was going to to use them for something or other, anyway they've just been placed around the plot strategically. They seem to have sprouted knobbly black balls otherwise known as King Alfred's Cake or Daldinia concentrica. Nice.

Patterns in nature

The logarithmic spiral
I know I've posted a picture of this calabrese romanesco already but it's got bigger and more beautiful. This is a great example of Fibonacci and the golden rectangle, a mathmatical pattern found in nature, like the whorl created by sunflower seeds or the spiral of a shell also known as phyllotaxis.