peas - Limes End Cottage

Getting ready for spring

The first day of March marks the official start of spring in the meteorological calendar but things have already started to get a little busier for us as we gear

autumn

Autumn round-up

After the flurry of activity in September, the last few weeks have been relatively quiet for us. The shortening days are the biggest factor in our winding down as, once each weekend’s essential autumn jobs (mucking out, collecting windfalls, raking up leaves) are

tomatoes

Summer harvest

Whilst we’ve been having some much needed rain over the last couple of days, the weather since the start of the month has been mostly sunny and warm which has sent our vegetable patches and fruit cage into overdrive. Gillian has been spending