Garden regrets… (or something less drama queen-like)
I’ve been busy. Family, friends, work, hoovering and dusting (but NOT ironing – I hate ironing), making extravagant meals far beyond my ability …
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I’ve been busy. Family, friends, work, hoovering and dusting (but NOT ironing – I hate ironing), making extravagant meals far beyond my ability …
I am having such a fabulous year with my pepper plants! I had a few different varieties and one of them ‘Beauty Bell’ has been a really heavy …
My tomato plants are no more. After a long and arduous journey they have gone to tomato plant heaven (i.e. the compost). They were doing ok up to …
We have a lot of beetroot ready right now and there is a limit to how much you can eat with salad so thought I would pass on one of my favourite beetroot …
I always end up with loads of tomatoes, far more than we can eat so the sensible thing is to make a tomato paste to freeze and use in cooking. However most …
weird phrase – but there you are. I have lots of runner beans. This has been by far the easiest and prettiest veg that I have grown so far this year. …
Red Duke of York potatoes are so pretty when cleaned up… bright scarlet red. I was feeling a little lazy so just boiled them up, fried some onion and …
Hooray! Please see pic for this evenings’ tea. Am v. excited. Enjoyed myself throughly scrambling for potatoes in the soil. I have some practical …
Was happily fiddling with my tomatoes the other day when I pulled back in horror. On the bottom side of the lowest branch (or stem or whatever it’s …
After reading an article in one of the garden mags earlier this year, I was interested in the concept of biodynamics, or planting with the moon phases. The …