Down at the bottom of the garden…

As we live in London, we're really lucky to have a good size garden. This does mean though that due to lack of time and money to do anything with it, a large section of it had become a dumping area for wood, stones and weeds. This end of our garden gets the most sun all day…

Growing our own – mouse melons

For my first year of growing our own veg, I wanted to try to grow some more unusual things alongside the more standard UK produce. I read about Mouse Melons in The Urban Kitchen Gardener: Growing and cooking in the City, and thought they sounded interesting. They are native to Mexico and Central America, so I wasn't…