Welcome to the Herbal Haven June newsletter. It has finally rained here in the Southeast. Yesterday Sunday, it poured over most of the country and though it was particularly miserable standing behind a stall during the downfall, it is still very much welcomed as the ground badly needed some moisture. Watering Zsuzsa’s allotment by watering can whilst she went...

Hi and welcome to the May 2011 newsletter. It has been a fantastic spring so far with lots of long hot sunny days. The bank holidays have kept us very busy over the last couple of weeks as there have been lots of shows to attend. It has been lovely to be on a stall over a sunny Easter. We have had some pretty grim weather, including snow in previous years. Lots...

Welcome to what has, so far, been a pretty chilly March. The tunnels are full to overflowing now but the plants in the unheated tunnels are struggling to put on much growth, the exception being the salad herbs, such as mizuna, which are growing nicely. We have had a bit of a problem with shrews over the winter and this spring. Shrew Nibbled Chervil During December...

I can’t believe it is February already - only seven weeks until our first shows of the season. As everyone knows this winter has been particularly cold. We have been sowing seeds since December and germinating them on heat benches. Some have been potted and kept in the warm for February sales but now the others are going out into the unheated tunnels. These...