From chilli fire to calming chamomile
It was a real surprise a couple of months back to find some young extreme chilli plants on sale in Morrison’s, among the herbs and house plants. The inevitable consequence […]
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As you sow, so shall you reap
The kitchen smells of spicy vinegar. The house smells of spicy vinegar. I smell of spicy vinegar. That’s from pickling some of the products that have come in from the […]
Dessication Situation
It’s all too easy to see growing your own vegetables through rose-coloured glasses. But home grown products easily can turn out underwhelming: awkwardly-shaped, tough and – worst of all – […]
Finding Flavours
This is that phase of the vegetable growing year when all the hard work seems to be done: digging over and clearing ground at the end of winter and sowing […]
Taking Shape
There’s something cute about tiny cucumbers just starting to form. All of a sudden the first few have appeared this week and I took the opportunity to pinch out the […]
Cooling colours and Comebacks
Or when you start to go off the colour green … Some clever people claim that there are infinite parallel universes and that therefore every permutation of circumstances will exist […]
I’m just a Bean Counter
Or when you get rather more than expected… A straggly mess: that’s what had become of the raised bed where dwarf French beans grew earlier in the season. As is […]
Purple Mini Trees
There’s a thing called Tree Kale: a group of tall, sturdy perennial brassicas, big enough to be considered trees and crowned by large edible leaves. They’re not often seen here […]
Defence Mechanisms
I’m trying to grow lemongrass again this year. Last year’s attempt floundered when a pot of young stalks didn’t survive the lower over-winter temperatures in a mini greenhouse. I’ll bring […]
A purple thing goin’ on
The local Council round here has a habit of letting various areas of land get overgrown with weeds before springing into late mowing action. That means every May there’s a […]
