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 […]
Tag Archives: kale
Coming in from the cold
Frost .. Schmost. With the cold weather starting to kick in, there’s still lots to make and do in the vegetable garden. I’m stunned still to have some chillis and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chilli madness
Cosmetic chillies, wrong radishes and a new use for Kale … One thing I learned last year was the advantage of sowing chilli seeds very early. Instructions on some packets […]
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 […]
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 […]
hail kale
Exactly three months ago I sowed some seeds of ‘Seaweed Kale’. The name had caught my interest when I saw it on the DT Brown’s web site. There’s room for […]
