Plum Prunus domestica
Plum Prunus domestica line drawing with detail of half fruit and plum blossom
Garden snail Helix aspera
Garden snail Helix aspera with grey body and yellow and brown shell cut to white
Garden snail Helix aspera 2
Garden snail Helix aspera line drawing in pen and ink cut to white
Common British Garden invertebrates
Common British Garden invertebrates including violet ground beetle, silver y moth, earth worm, worm, flesh fly, honey bee, ladybird, and small tortoiseshell butterfly with written annotations on each
Growing cucumbers 2
Cucumber plant drowing up a support showing tendrils, leaves, and young cucumber fruits and flowers alogn with companion planting of nasturtium
Building a raised bed 2
How to build a raised bed from planks showing attachments of horizontal planks to the vertical uprights, and how to secure the bed in the ground
Pricking out seedlings 2
Safely pricking out seedlings from a seed tray
Double digging 2
Diagram showing how to do double digging of a flower bed or vegetable plot
Wild Plum Prunus domestica
Wild Plum Prunus domestica fruit and blossom
Agaricus campestris
Agaricus campestris Big illustration of the underside of a field mushroom with stipe removed, with a younger mushroom with pinker gills ontop
Damson fruit Prunus domestica
Damson fruit Prunus domestica individual lone fruit
Iris in gravel
Iris in gravel with blue petals
Garden border
Garden border in spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils and daisies abutting a carefully tended lawn and edged with concrete slabs
Growing cucumbers
Cucumber plant drowing up a support showing tendrils, leaves, and young cucumber fruits and flowers alogn with companion planting of nasturtium
Vegetable crop rotation
Rotation patterns for growing vegetables
Vegetable crop rotation 2
Rotation patterns for growing vegetables
Vehetable garden layout sketches
Examples of how to lay out your vegetable garden and how adaptable one space can be
Growing salad crops in a container
Container growing herbs including marjoram, chives, basil, chervril, salad, lettuce, and nasturtium
Intensively planted raised bed
Raised bed growing chives, nasturtium, lavender, chili, cabbage, lettuce, rosemary, parsley, and violets
Lasagna garden
Lasagna garden cross section showing the layering of paper, organic matter such as compost, topsoil, and crops
Leaf litter
Study of leaf litter showing dead decaying leaves
Pepper seedling in a hand
Pepper seedling in a lump of soil, held in the hand of a gardener
Pinching out growth tips to encourage growth
A hand pinching out the growth tips on a cucumber plant to encourage lateral growth and more cucmber fruit
Planting a vegetable garden in a container
Brownstone house with back yard full of a diverse array of containers all of which are growing different edible food crops from herbs to fruit thorugh salads and vegetables.