Tag Archives: vegetables

Back to Basics

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Francis Pryor

The last few weeks have been a bit frantic. My new book, A Fenland Garden, was published on July 6th and on that evening I did a sell-out signing in Waterstones Bookshop, Kings Lynn. Since then, I’ve spent a week … Continue reading →

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Dig for Sanity!

Posted on December 5, 2020 by Francis Pryor

By the end of November we are past the season of ‘mists and mellow fruitfulness’[1] and have entered a time of short days, low clouds and occasional bright skies, with breath-taking displays at dawn and dusk. Even without Covid, these … Continue reading →

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A Tour Around Inley Drove Farm Garden in June and July, 2020: Part 1

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Francis Pryor

These two blog posts (this is the first part only) are written for the benefit of those visitors who would have come to our garden in a pre-booked tour, in June and July 2020. Sadly we have had to cancel … Continue reading →

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Digging the Vegetable Garden: One of My Favourite Jobs of the Year

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Francis Pryor

I know there’s a big danger about droning on and on about a wet season, but whenever I meet other gardeners that’s all we ever want to do. And it seems to make us all feel just a little less … Continue reading →

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High Summer 2019: Hot and Wet

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Francis Pryor

I think last Thursday, July 25th was the hottest day I’ve ever experienced and at 38.7o Celsius (101.66o Fahrenheit) the thermometer in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden agreed with me: an all-time British record. But it was the humidity that … Continue reading →

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Grow Your Own. On Spuds and Broad Beans: Better Late than Never

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Francis Pryor

Is the season at last starting to catch-up? If you’d asked me that a week ago, I’d have probably said yes. Now I’m not so sure, as I sit at my desk, with the south-westerly wind howling around the rafters. … Continue reading →

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Forget the Nuclear Winter: It’s a Nuclear Spring!

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Francis Pryor

I was planning to write a nice considered blog about planting potatoes and broad beans – both jobs that I would normally do in mid- or late March – but it has been such a late season. The trouble with … Continue reading →

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Creating Fort Knox, a.k.a. My Vegetable Garden

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Francis Pryor

One morning bright and early during the winter before last, I was heading towards the barn to release the chickens, and check for eggs.  Overnight there had been a sharp frost, so I decided to take the gravel path along … Continue reading →

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Grow Your Own: 1

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Francis Pryor

We recently took a few days off, and as there are about 150 animals still on the farm, we always make sure the place is looked-after by farm-sitters. Sometimes it’s local friends who keep an eye in things, but other … Continue reading →

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