Category: Out Of Doors

Garden jobs for January

This month’s jobs from Sherborne’s expert gardener Pete Harcom • Pruning Winter pruning can be done now on your climbing roses, apple and pear trees. Also...

Time to look back and learn | Voice of the Allotment

In the quiet days of the middle of winter, Barry Cuff reflects on the last year of growing in order to improve this year’s...

Happy Blue Year?

January feeling a struggle? Thorngrove’s expert team share their own enjoyment in the start of the year, the steady, busy transition to spring -...

The joy of growing from seed

Charlotte Tombs, an experienced Dorset flower farmer at Northcombe Flowers in Sturminster Marshall, shares her growing year and seasonal thoughts with us. I use January...

The voice of the allotment | December 2021

A November plot - Barry Cuff shares the result of careful planning with a continuing harvest from his winter allotment. After the deluge on the...

How we embrace Christmas

Cyclamen, Wreath Making workshops, gifts for loved ones, and of course, the trees... yes, we’re embracing it all. There’s no denying it any longer. It’s...

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Start to finish – sharing the dream

Occasionally it’s great to leave the stud so that the whole team can share in the ultimate racing dream, says Lucy Procter. This week Last...

Consumers need informed assurance

Farm assurance schemes need to stand up for our higher standards and tell consumers WHY to British food, says the NFU’s Tim Gelfs Farm assurance...