Fresh from the plot

Finally, summer has begun. All that hard work toiling and turning the soil in the autumn months, before sowing and planting out in spring, really starts to come to fruition as we enter June.

Daybreak starts always put a smile on my face. The silence has already been broken by the dawn chorus and as I make my way along the path, my eyes dart over the lush green growth of the potato plants catching the morning light through the trees.

Passing the towering bean pole structures, I glimpse pink and purple flowers. In a month’s time they’ll be laden with French