Hi ! I'm Stephen, a 35 year old software engineer (that's CV speak for "techie"), and I live just yards from the English Channel near Worthing, West Sussex.

As a small boy I lived in a small Victorian house with a tiny back garden, in fact some may call it just a back yard. We did have a very small patch of lawn with  a very small run of "earth" down the side of the yard.   Yet, I remember this garden being used to grow food by my mother, the yearly putting up of the bean poles, the strawberries, and the countless potato plants that were never planted but always grew from the pile of potato peelings that she would throw out into the garden each week.     It would never have sustained a family of four for very long, but it seemed the norm.   

Click below for monthly reports from Stephen:

May 09 - Introducing my garden

June 09 - Rhubarb & slugs

July 09 - Cats and growbags, not a good mix!

August 09 - Losing my cherries

September 09 - Wet weather and worm wee

October 09 - Time for a Tidy Up

November 09 - Wind and rain!

February 10 - Pruning and log pets

May 10 - Square Foot Forward !

July 10 - Watering away