Autumn - time to save those seeds

Autumn brings with it the fruits and seeds of the garden - here's my good friend and garden buddy Mr Pushkin with this year's pumpkin harvest (actually, I don't think he's very impressed by pumpkins):

I've had very busy paws doing all the gathering and drying for my Big Bunny range of seeds, available on Felt. I make sure they're fresh to you every year, and spend a lot of time over the next few months processing them to store in cool, dry conditions and growing test batches to make sure they're good and strong.

You can save your own seeds too - make sure you gather seeds from the healthiest, strongest plants of your crop, as these are the ones best suited to your garden's conditions. Grab some of my super-useful seed saver envelopes to make sure you've got them safely stored with all the information you need recorded.

Scrummy salads

Ah, salad days... what could make a bunny happier? Here's my current favourite:

Big Bunny's Summer Garden Stroll Salad

Tomatoes, a colourful variety if you've got 'em (I love Campari, Yellow Pear, Black Krim and Golden Roma in mine, but any tasty toms will do.)
Cucumber
A handful of rocket, basil and bronze fennel leaves
Torn up chunks of fresh mozzarella cheese
A few cashew nuts
Olives, pitted and chopped
Olive oil
Balsamic glaze
A little salt and pepper

What, you want measurements? Amounts? Don't be silly! This is a salad, not a soufflé! Chuck it in and big up whatever you like best - go on, be brave. :-) Chunk up the tomatoes and cucumber (halve cherry tomatoes), tear the salad leaves a little to release the scent and add the rest of the ingredients. Stir a little to mix through the dressing and leave to sit for half an hour to allow the flavours to combine (if you can wait that long). Then get those incisors nibbling!

The start of the summer harvest

February is the time on flowering and fruiting, as I start to reap the rewards of the springtime work. Check out these beautiful flowers and fruits of the harvest...

From tiny to substantial - Sungold cherry tomatoes and a luscious Black from Tula beefsteak:

Beautiful beans - the highly decorative and delicious candy-stripped Borlotti beans, and the classic scarlet runners drying nicely for seed in the warm air:

My nose is twitching with the scents of summer salads and winter stews to come, with all these lovely ingredients to play with. What a delight!

Summer's bursting out all over

The warm weather is settling in post Christmas, and the garden is looking lush. It's just at that tipping point from the neat, soft green perfection of spring to the jungle of summer, when paths start to disappear and everything sprawls in the sun.

The tomatoes are getting full and fat, promising a good harvest this year. It's still too early for most, but the tiny, hardy Henry Harrington's Dwarf Cherry tomatoes surprised me by winning the race a day before Christmas with three perfectly ripe wee red fruits - now there's a lovely Christmas present!

Another lovely surprise is this bed which I'd left fallow this year - it produced a simply gorgeous surprise meadow of poppies, calendulas, lettuces and rocket. Isn't it beautiful? The bees think it's jolly tasty too!

I've got Christmas garden goodies galore!

Christmas time is here, by golly, and I've been a bunny with busy paws, making up the perfect Christmas gifts for the green-fingered loved ones in your life.

May I present to you... (drumroll please)... the Big Bunny Super Christmas Gardener packs! These gorgeous little ketes are packed full of Big Bunny seeds, seed saver envelopes and cute little bunny-themed seedling markers. They come with your choice of three seed varieties from the Big Bunny range, so you can pick seeds to suit any species of gardener, from ornamental to edible-obsessed.

I've also got a pack with just the seed saver envelopes and markers, for sending to overseas gardeners:

Hang 'em on the tree or stuff 'em in a stocking! Your favourite gardener will be skipping for joy and other gardeners will be green with envy. :-) You'll find them all in my Felt shop.

Sweet little sweet pea...?

Once upon a time a cute little self-sown sweet pea popped up beside an apple tree. "Awww," I said, "It's so cute and little, it'll look gorgeous twining in amongst the apple." A few months later... There is still an apple tree under there, honest!

What's all this then?

It looks like legions of little big bunnies! Stay tuned to find out more... :-)