Sat 15 Aug 2009 19.01 EDT It is here, among shades of green that range from melancholy dark emerald to the zingiest lime, where you will find Britain's best-loved and busiest cookery writer.
Try following Nigel’s lead by planting hydrangea ‘Annabelle’, which likes a sheltered position, can be south, north, west or east-facing, and can thrive in partial shade. I’m still amazed when something happens.’ He proudly shows me the tiniest cherry tomato-sized aubergine hanging from a plant. Where I could hide. You have to have trust, absolutely." 'There is so much wildlife, you almost expect David Attenborough to come through the gate at the bottom,’ he says. He has new favourites, too, like dicentra, with intricate locket-shaped flowers which he now thinks he could not have a garden without. So it's possible that the pale, wispy spires of the Persicaria amplexicaulis "Alba" might catch his eye. I’m a home cook; I’ve only ever cooked at home,’ he says. "I wanted a space," he explains, "where I felt very private, very secluded. His new book, extracted here, continues his passion for seasonal food – particularly the crops he has grown himself, in his north London vegetable patch. At home, in his garden, at last. I restocked a few missing varieties this year with a delivery from Pennard Plants in Somerset. Everything I have ever planted here has struggled for a while then died.
He has grown enough courgettes to make him not want to eat another one for a while, and has had good crops of beans, spinach, peas, potatoes, strawberries and tomatoes (marmande and green zebra varieties among them), but he is not trying to be self-sufficient. The epimediums, covered in cup-shaped flowers in spring, jiggle about "like fairies at the bottom of the garden" when he waters them. "It as if there are stars everywhere. And then move on to the next one.’ The six patches are now all given over to fruit and vegetables. Every night in the early days Nigel would go outside with wooden cloches, like lobster pots, to protect the new growth from the foxes who live in the garden next door. It is usually around dusk. It's astonishing how swiftly the garden has filled out, plumped up like a loaf left to rise in the airing cupboard. A white vinca called "Gertrude Jekyll" sends out creeping tendrils. The mulberry tree and a "Discovery" apple tree were also spared. I just rolled over.") Dark spot in your garden? The shimmery white blooms are some of the first to flower after winter, as though, explains Dan, "to start the whole year off". "Now the idea was for it to be almost Japanese in its simplicity," explains Nigel. Nigel Slater's garden of earthly delights. The Bengal rose might still flower - the one in Chelsea Physic Garden is never without at least one bloom and in this sheltered, secluded spot, Nigel might be as lucky with his. Have you checked out Nigel Slater’s garden on Insta yet? He also serves as art director for his books. (I feed them fortnightly.)
At the outset he imagined it would be a place to think, to contemplate. But it’s also packed with planting that creates colour, fragrance, shape and interest, and it’s a space that attracts birds, bees and butterflies. To find him - and I strongly urge that you do not do this, because to do so would defeat the object of the exercise - you must walk past his blousy cactus dahlias and the bamboo wigwam for his beans until you meet a towering metal gate in the tall yew hedge which divides his 80ft-long back garden halfway down. The two would bump into one another at Borough Market most weeks. The box - 90 plants in all - was stored in the sitting room from where, with the radiators still on, the vanilla scent wafted through the ground floor. A time of quiet contemplation. And we mean that literally, as in abundant healthy plants, as well as really, really attractive and appealing. Or he could be quietly admiring the frilly umbrels of the creamy Selinum wallichianum (milk parsley, by any other name). Nigel invited Dan around to his north London house for tea; Dan showed Nigel his garden in south London. so … What he's created - with the guidance of Dan Pearson, the Observer's gardening columnist - is a secret garden, in an overlooked space, on a busy road, in the centre of one of the world's most crowded cities. Nigel Slater’s recipes have been enchanting home cooks for 17 years.
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