Stories, notes and extra photos to go with my UK garden vlogs.
Published: 19 July 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A full tour of my 15 square metre kitchen garden in Chichester, West Sussex, showing how I grow tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, pumpkins, potatoes and more by using the space vertically.
Published: 9 July 2026 - Watch on YouTube
Back from a family road trip around the Alps, I return to a wildly overgrown kitchen garden in West Sussex and spend the day taming three weeks of chaos: untangling mutant cherry tomatoes, rescuing peppers and cucumbers, and tying up pumpkins.
Published: 1 July 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A rainy, windy June day at my new allotment near Chichester, West Sussex, where I raced to plant out brassicas, beetroot, courgettes and flowers before heading off on holiday for two weeks.
Published: 26 June 2026 - Watch on YouTube
After two and a half weeks away, Aga returns to her windy Chichester garden in West Sussex during a 36 degree heatwave to see what survived, what thrived and what did not, from a potato jungle to towering verbena.
Published: 23 June 2026 - Watch on YouTube
Aga from My Windy Garden in Chichester, West Sussex prepares her garden and allotment before a two week holiday, battling a nameless storm, tying up roses, and finally getting all her dahlias planted and potted up.
Published: 17 June 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A quiet walk around my Chichester garden in West Sussex while the David Austin roses are in full bloom, from The Pilgrim to Lady of Shalott, on a grey English June day.
Published: 13 June 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A very hot day at my windy Chichester allotment in West Sussex, setting up six new raised beds (a birthday present), filling them with compost and well rotted horse manure, and planting pumpkins, squash, sweet corn, cucumbers and dwarf beans.
Published: 2 June 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A calm evening in my Chichester kitchen garden here in West Sussex, planting out tomatoes and cucumbers, potting up more for pots, and finally deciding what to do about my black fly ridden broad beans.
Published: 26 May 2026 - Watch on YouTube
An end of May garden tour from my windy garden in Chichester, West Sussex, during an extreme UK heatwave. Roses in full bloom, a new tomato trellis, dahlias waking up, and why nothing is planted out yet.
Published: 18 May 2026 - Watch on YouTube
After a month away, I return to my windy Chichester allotment to find rock-hard clay soil and creeping weeds. A honest May reset in West Sussex: cardboard, horse manure and working with what I have.
Published: 8 May 2026 - Watch on YouTube
After my mobile greenhouse blew over in Chichester, West Sussex, I finally faced the job I had been dreading: repotting and sorting out all my tumbled tomato, pepper and brassica seedlings.
Published: 4 May 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A honest May bank holiday in my windy Chichester garden, West Sussex, where the dahlias surprised me but the rusty arches snapped and the rain stopped play. Not every gardening day goes to plan.
Published: 26 April 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A mid-April tour of my windy garden in Chichester, West Sussex, where everything has exploded into growth. I share what has worked, from heavy apple blossom to spreading brunnera, and what has struggled, including the olive tree, a poorly jasmine and the return of the aphids.
Published: 10 April 2026 - Watch on YouTube
Aga from My Windy Garden in Chichester, West Sussex checks in on her tomato seedlings 14 days after sowing, with 36 of 40 seeds germinated, then pricks out and pots up the young plants without snapping a single stem.
Published: 6 April 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A busy spring day in my windy Chichester garden in West Sussex: potting up sweet corn and Big Max pumpkins, sowing a few more squash, and finally checking whether my old dahlia tubers survived the winter.
Published: 3 April 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A cosy spring potting session in my Chichester garden in West Sussex, where sun turned to rain and I moved indoors to the shed to pot up dahlia tubers, gladioli and more, with plenty of very English weather along the way.
Published: 23 March 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A calm, beginner-friendly guide to sowing tomato seeds from my garden shed in Chichester, West Sussex. I sow eight varieties the day after the spring equinox and share every step, from choosing compost to the sunny windowsill.
Published: 22 March 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A calm spring reset in my windy Chichester garden, West Sussex: finishing the great raspberry root dig-out, mulching the raised bed, trimming Erigeron and tidying the borders as everything comes back to life.
Published: 13 March 2026 - Watch on YouTube
Allotment transformation update from Chichester, West Sussex, UK. Clearing weeds, preparing a border using the no dig method, covering the soil with cardboard, and mulching with horse manure while improving heavy clay soil step by step.
Tags: #AllotmentTransformation #AllotmentGardening #HorseManure #SoilHealth #NoDigGardening
Published: 6 March 2026 - Watch on YouTube
Sunny allotment vlog from West Sussex, UK. Planting more than 100 onion plugs into raised beds, checking on garlic and raspberry canes, reflecting on early sowing, and sharing the outcome of the faulty compost complaint.
Tags: #AllotmentLife #Allotment #GardeningUK #GrowingOnions #MyWindyGarden
Published: 27 February 2026 - Watch on YouTube
End of February garden update from Chichester, West Sussex, UK. After weeks of heavy rain, the first sunny day reveals spring bulbs in bloom, pruned fruit trees, early perennials waking up, and ongoing kitchen garden work removing invasive raspberry roots.
Tags: #GardeningUK #SpringGarden #GardenUpdate #KitchenGarden #GrowYourOwn
Published: 24 February 2026 - Watch on YouTube
Allotment recovery in Chichester, West Sussex, UK. After discovering unusable compost in raised beds, I bring well-rotted horse manure and better multi-purpose compost to improve soil, protect the garlic, and prepare for onions.
Tags: #AllotmentGarden #UKGardening #RaisedBeds #SoilHealth #MyWindyGarden
Published: 20 February 2026 - Watch on YouTube
Allotment transformation in West Sussex, UK. Filling raised beds with compost, planting White Casablanca and Germidour garlic, checking storm damage, and dealing with very poor quality compost.
Tags: #Allotment #PlantingGarlic #RaisedBeds #GardeningUK #MyWindyGarden
Published: 13 February 2026 - Watch on YouTube
Transforming a very boggy allotment plot in West Sussex by building a long woodchip path and assembling six raised beds using reused materials. Preparing space for transplanting onions and garlic with a no-dig method.
Tags: #allotment #allotmentgardening #growyourown #raisedbeds #gardeninguk
Published: 6 February 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A calm winter gardening session from West Sussex. Pruning verbena, rosemary and roses, tidying a perennial border, and an update on onions and garlic growing in modules.
Tags: #WinterGardening #Pruning #UKGarden #MyWindyGarden #SlowGardening
Published: 30 January 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A real-life gardening mistake from My Windy Garden in Chichester, West Sussex. Discover how invasive raspberry roots spread under raised beds, why raspberries are risky in small gardens, and what it really takes to remove them.
Tags: #KitchenGarden #RaisedBeds #GardeningUK #Raspberries #MyWindyGarden
Published: 23 January 2026 - Watch on YouTube
First proper allotment vlog from a new plot in Chichester, West Sussex. A winter tour after a storm, planting raspberry canes in heavy clay soil and sharing early plans for compost, pathways and seasonal growing.
Tags: #allotmentvlog #newallotment #allotmenttour #plantingraspberries #ukgardening #mywindygarden
Published: 16 January 2026 - Watch on YouTube
Calm January gardening in a UK garden. Lifting verbena, dividing diascia, and potting rose campion to move to the allotment. Gentle winter tasks with no rush.
Published: 9 January 2026 - Watch on YouTube
New Year's Day in the garden instead of indoors. On a rare dry winter day, I finally tackle a job I had been avoiding for a long time: digging out established raspberry plants from my small kitchen garden. This video shows how invasive raspberry roots can be, especially in heavy clay soil, and why planting them in a tight space was a mistake. I also share a winter update on garlic and onion seedlings grown in modules, plus plans to move the raspberries and rhubarb to the allotment where they will have room to spread.
Tags: #JanuaryGarden #WinterGardening #Raspberries #ClaySoil #KitchenGarden #Allotment #MyWindyGarden
Published: 3 January 2026 - Watch on YouTube
A quiet, visual look back at My Windy Garden through the seasons of 2025. This post accompanies a slow garden vlog capturing spring movement, summer growth, autumn light and winter stillness - no tutorials or tasks, just natural moments from a real UK garden as the year unfolded.
Tags: #MyWindyGarden #GardenHighlights #UKGarden #SlowGardening #SeasonalGarden #GardenThroughTheYear
Published: 27 December 2025 - Watch on YouTube
A few calm jobs in the shed on a cold last week of December in West Sussex: taking petunia cuttings to propagate, and planting leftover onion sets into modules so nothing goes to waste.
Published: 21 December 2025 - Watch on YouTube
In mid-December the garden is mostly resting, but I am busy in the veg patch: the raspberries have started spreading under and into the raised bed, so I am digging out a surprising network of roots, saving canes, and planning to move the whole patch to the allotment. I also share an update on the allotment (very wet ground), garlic that had to go into modules, and a quick, slightly chaotic planting session with narcissus, muscari, and crocus bulbs.
Published: 30 November 2025 - Watch on YouTube
End-of-November update from my windy UK garden (Chichester, West Sussex). It has been a tough month health-wise, so the garden is a bit neglected, but there is still plenty to share: a surprisingly great pepper harvest in the shed, the first look at my brand new allotment plot (and a soggy entrance!), plus some honest tidying in the kitchen garden, aphids on garlic, and plans to move plants like verbena, rhubarb and raspberries to their new home.
Published: 1 November 2025 - Watch on YouTube
A follow-up to the September tour: this time I am showing the tree border with ornamental cherries, apples and pears (yes, quite a lot for a small UK garden!), the new flower border by the garage that got damaged in the September storm, and dahlias which are still flowering.
Published: 5 October 2025 - Watch on YouTube
Join me on a September tour of my kitchen garden as summer slowly fades and autumn begins to show. See what is still blooming, what is ready for harvest, and how the garden transforms in early autumn.