Hi Lucy – I can’t bring myself to look at Nigellissima but perhaps I should since you recommend it so highly. The garden will I hope be full of brassicas, spinach, kale and plenty of turnips, swedes and other roots although it’s been a terrible job getting them to germinate the root vegs with the dry weather. Garlic is always a massive crop grown over winter and I’m tempted to go mad this year and grow them instead of weeds which invariably fill the beds if there isn’t something else in the ground. The green house is always full of rocket and other salad leaves as well as herbs so we do well all year and I have two new beds this year to will be able to keep the neighbours supplied in lieu of the wood they provide for us. All works out very well.

Hi Lesley, couldn’t agree more on the cake :o)