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Alan Phillips is an organic gardener who grows fruit and vegetables at his plot at the Weald Allotments in Hove. Here, he will be explaining his love for growing his own.

Where on earth are we going ?

Last Sunday I went to the Killing Fields, on Monday it was to Antarctica and on afterwards to the Earth and Stars. On Sunday it will be back to Preston Park

Landing Celebrities

Those who market Brighton Festival seem sometimes to be obsessed with the cult of image and the number of celebrities, rather than concentrating on depth and substance in the talks.

Sods Law and a Hen Party

Laying down the law with a hose pipe ban was an excellent move by Southern Water.

Seedy Bankers

This time I have found a seedy banker in a country estate in Sussex sharing beds with the National Trust!

Values

Knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing is not confined to bankers.

Inbreeding on the Council

What were you doing when the Council tax was frozen? Is this the question, your grandchildren will be asking you in 50 years time. Were you sowing your seeds after Seedy Sunday or watching the eyewatering webcast?

A Snowy,Seedy Sunday for you?

How will you keep warm on Sunday , if it’s a cold, snowy, seedy Sunday? Who will you keep warm with?

Lottie and Stephen Hester

The bonus for Stephen Hester, RBS, on his basic –yes basic compensation of £1.2 million -is worth £963,000. Interestingly this bonus would fund the cost of allotment rentals for all 2,800 tenants for 6 years. It certainly is a rich man’s world.

£110 Lottie in a rich man's world

Where are the green policies? Have the Greens knowingly agreed to allotment rentals increasing by 67% to £110?

Mourning in Moulsecoomb

Moulsecoomb Forests Garden has grabbed headline news this week for all the wrong reasons. Its amazing shed-a focus of the community project- has been burnt down.

The return of the Roedale Terminator

If you are old, cannot saw down trees, are too handicapped to repair sheds or need to spend time with a dying relative, take care, take great care …..the terminator is coming. No one is safe, even hiding in Brighton’s beautiful Roedale Valley.

Allotment week or “Much ado about nothing”.

Is there much point calling this week “Allotment week”? Surely we should have a “Waiting for Lottie” decade”?

Monet's light summer touches.

August is the time to be with nature and let your soul catch up with your body.

Seedy Sunday in a rich man’s world

On those hot basking sunny days of August there is time to have seedy thoughts while lying back, listening to the birds and the bees, watching the wind ripple through the grass.