Playing it Safe
One of the few vegetables that positively benefits from these wintry conditions is garlic. I planted garlic bulbs back in early December and it was good to see their green […]
Category Archives: Public recipes
Leaf Relief
Fronds to the fore Autumn means leaves will be falling from the trees soon but in terms of vegetable growing it’s a time when the emerging crops bring lots of […]
Big, small, green, red, crunch!
Or how at this time of year every phase of vegetable growing is there to be enjoyed As we enter the last few weeks of summer there are lots of […]
Sprouts and Cheese
Thankfully, not quite what it sounds like … It was two weeks ago that I followed a specialist chilli supplier’s instructions for germinating their hardcore chilli seeds. Every few days their […]
Chickpea Surprise
You did what with a can of chickpeas?? As I started to slowly sink into the ground, it became clear that this week’s rain has made for conditions not best […]
Colourful finales
The UK seems to have all the year’s weather seasons going on within the same week at the moment. It makes vegetable gardening ‘interesting’ to say the least. Splashing about […]
Purple 2 – will orange do?
Purple .. pah! Who needs it? Steeled by my recent failure to make a purple pesto, I resolved to work on its elusive cousin, Pesto Rosso. The rosso (red) comes from […]
Dry, freeze, eat, prepare
Oh let me assure you Mr. Bond, I intend to control the world’s supply of rosemary.. I would post a photo of the rosemary plant in my herb bed but […]
Rhubarb cocktail
With the rhubarb plants doing well and young fresh stalks ready to pick, I was intrigued yesterday by an on-line recipe for a rhubarb cocktail. Making a rhubarb syrup and […]
Agretti at last
My agretti adventure finally came to fruition today, as I cooked some in earnest for the first time. Picking a few ‘plants’ I was surprised just how productive a vegetable […]
