Keith & Freya are busy in the wonderful English spring weather, planting out those hardened off seedlings, and looking forward to a healthy crop of courgette and collard greens.

Also, some tips on how to get the water to the roots and how NOT to feed those abundant Zuchinni...... We are also looking after the final weeks of the strawberry growing cycle, as the plants set fruit.

Join Keith & Freya this week at "The People's Show", the RHS Spring Garden Show in Malvern, at the magnificent showground!

This show is one of the most useful in the calendar for practical gardeners, with plants for sale at reasonable prices, lots of good advice from the growers and nursery staff and some spectacular show gardens as well! 

And its cheaper than Chelsea! And less snobby! 

Join Keith & Freya up the 'lotty as they reveal the results of their revolutionary (?) method of getting their parsnips going in toilet rolls!

We plant them out with our similarly grown broad (Fava) beans and make sure the raised bed compost is free of clumps, bumps and stones....

Time to plant pumpkin and squash seeds too and a good tip on how to give those Jack'O'Lanterns a boost on a big pile of ........

Also find out which life forms aliens would detect first if they were spying on planet Earth!

Keith & Freya are planting their runners this week, with three varieties and a little, tiny pencil mouthed competition! ( Listen to take part!)

Frost is our enemy and that goes for sunflowers too! We've got a ton of varieties and they're good for insects with seeds that hoomans cn enjoy, as well as feeding the birds in the winter..... 

Keith & Freya have been doing the final planting of this year's strawberry plants, making sure the young greenery is comfy in their new raised bed , ready for July cropping!

The lore of the allotment says Easter is the time to plant your first main crop spuds, but we've not even got the first and second earlies in yet! BTW: (We explain all that 1st/2nd/maincrop malarky).

It's also the time to start thinking about your Christmas table and the lovely beetroot pickles with cold turkey on Boxing day! Keith & Freya are planting an allotment favourite as well as something with a bit more colour to it!

Keith & Freya are in their mini greenhouse this week planting their courgette/ zuchini crop for this year. Staying with the Italian theme, we're getting our Italian Kale seeds in. Cavalo Nero, which costs a bomb in the shops and is a really attractive plant as well as being a tasty money saver. 

There's beetroot and collard greens being planted for the coming winter crop and an update on how our seedlings are progressing from past week's episodes.

We are also sharing our money saving recipe for seed compost using kitchen waste, old planting soil and ancient play sand from the garden.......

Keith & Freya are in their little greenhouse planting more seeds for 2025 and planning what will go on their plates as well as in the garden!

The Lobjois lettuce are sprouting, the first planting of sweet peas are breaking through and the cornflower and marigolds are racing away!

This week we are planting Kalettes and a herb the Romans used to snack on, Alexanders..... It still grows wild in England..... The descendants of the pants Caesar brought from Italy.

With local and national garden shows gearing up for 2025, let's take a look back at The Gooden Life at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show last year with some ideas for you.

Heritage veg seeds from an exciting start up company, Fuschias from a multiple gold medal winner and how a designer got inspiration for her "Bridgerton" garden.

Ideas we can translate into our own patches and plots!

Join Keith & Freya back on the allotment for a day of planting a new crop, Jerusalem artichokes. 

Not easily available in the shops but a delicious alternative to spuds and a beautiful plant that looks like a sunflower.

We harvest overwintered Leeks, the final pickings of the Italian Kale and the Collards keep on giving!

Keith & Freya are putting all their saved toilet roll tubes to use and planting their broad beans and sweet peas. Both of which love a little more space for their roots!

We are also planting our tomato seeds with some good tips on which are best for beginners, as well as the more experienced Tom grower!

There's also a warning of frost in the forecast so find out which seeds to hold off panting for another month or so....