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 […]
Tag Archives: broad beans
Healthy Returns
After nearly five months in the ground, the maincrop potatoes were ready to come out this weekend. I do like the annual treasure hunt of fishing through the soil for […]
Coming In and Going Out
It was a big day in the garden today: after lifting various matured crops I was finally able to move the tomato plants out of the plastic tents and into […]
Harvest Time
For me, this is one of the best times of the vegetable growing year. Root crops have been rapidly swelling and there is so much lovely food to pick and […]
New shoots
After eight weeks of growing their sprouts indoors, the potatoes finally went into the ground today. I had left a polythene sheet over the target raised bed for most of […]
Sowing & planting
Broad beans, spring onions, fertiliser, weeds and rain. That was today’s agenda for the raised beds. A bit of weeding in the onion patch revealed that the overwintering sets have […]
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 […]
Marvellous May
At last some hot weather and everything is starting to flourish … Above, the first small fruits have appeared on the fig tree. They’ll thrive if this sunny weather continues. […]
Sage chicken
This was dinner last night. Dried sage which we grew last year, stuffed under the skin of chicken fillets, pan fried and served on the last of the frozen broad […]
Competition cooking
These are a couple of dishes I made and submitted to the Grow Your Own forum competition this week. All home grown ingredients. First, a potato and rocket salad: And […]
