It's always very important to take the time to enjoy the fruits of your labours. "Chutney" the mastiff mastered that art.

Over the years I have created a number of gardens. Some have fed me. Some filled with flowers and vegetables, have been works of art. Some have been quite large and others tidy miniatures. I've tried, frequently successfully, to grow a wide variety of things in containers of every sort.

There has probably been more gardens indoors then outdoors because indoor gardening was the activity that paid the bills so that I could indulge in my own outdoor gardens

I have tried valiantly to break every gardening ‘rule’ that I've ever heared. That tactic has always been instructive, frequently painfully so. Apparently some gardening rules have some validity. I'll share with you the lessons I've learned and introduce you to some of the bugs and beasties I've met along the way.

I live in and for my gardens as they continually provide me with the material for my Garden Writing and Photography and the content of my gardening seminars as well as a constant source of sustenance for the both the body and the soul.

You too, can learn to grow
and enjoy vegetables
such as ‘Curried Grilled Eggplant.’
I will take you from
seeds to plate.




My goal on these pages is to share my hard earned gardening knowledge and passionate but always light hearted outlook, in the hope that you may learn from my mistakes, (leaving you free to make new ones in your garden.) Then you can sow your own seeds that will yield the joyful daily harvest that gardening provides when we are Dallying in the Dirt.

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