A matter of taste
This year, because a particular raised bed is still troubled by knotty roots from a green manure sowing a few years back, I planted seed potatoes in stand-up bags on […]
Tag Archives: herbs
Rain has its upside
Especially if you’re sowing lettuce With warnings of a week of heavy rain about to begin, it was important to get some planting jobs done in the garden today. By […]
Preparations proceeding
With the outdoor sowing season approaching, it was time at the weekend to give the raised beds a good clear and tidy up. Lots of small weeds and patches of […]
Drying and Roasting
Just like squirrels burying their supply of nuts, it’s time for vegetable gardeners to bring in final harvests from many of the main growing season’s plants and store them for […]
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 […]
Fig Roles
The biggest harvests coming in from the garden at the moment are tomatoes: delicious, strong-tasting, deep red tomatoes. And happily there are so many ways of enjoying them that the […]
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 […]
Tape Recordings
After a warm, sunny week there was the potential to move young vegetable plants outside this weekend. Unfortunately the weather turned cooler today, so things will need to stay where […]
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 […]
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 […]
