Growing your own is heralded as cheap and easy. I beg to differ. I have not fully costed all the seeds, compost and other paraphernalia but cheap is not a word I’d use. Neither is easy. You have to have your wits about you, pay close attention to detail... There should have been a bad hair day alert put out with the weather forecast today. We’ve been treated to a continuous shower of fine spring mist all day. Just the sort of weather to make your hair frizzy or in my case flat and damp. The offending weather... The weekend is beckoning like light at the end of the tunnel. Except we’ve been bathed in golden light all week – sunshine warm enough to bring out the shorts and jandals. It’s been warm and dry enough that I relented and used some of our... Fortnum likes to survey his kingdom and usually flops down on the highest point of the garden next to the kitchen garden. That way he can see me yet keep and eye on any other possible intruders. With the sun setting it was a golden light and perfect for a basset... Seeing peas seedlings pop up through the soil says summer is on it’s way. But it also means it’s time to do battle with the bamboo canes for a spot of garden engineering. My original plan this year was to construct some obelisks and paint them in... 