ALL ABUZZ on the plot
April truly heralds the spring: longer days, warmer soil and a dynamic energy that lifts the spirits and fills me with the urge to spend as much time as I can outside. I take my morning coffee into the garden to listen to the birdsong and buzzing bustle of nature responding to the call to raise young. Every day there is something new to discover – blossom, swelling leaf buds, the first asparagus shoots pushing up from the earth.
My kitchen is filled with mostly overwintered vegetables: home-grown spring cabbages, carrots from the polytunnel, leeks,
