The time is (nearly) Ripe
I’ve a very interesting tomato bed on the go this season: two plants each of Santorange, Aviditas and the blight-resistant Crimson Crush, each a first-time grow for me. I bought […]
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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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
In need of flowers
I’ve three fiery chilli varieties on the go this year: Maya Pimento, Peach Bhut Jolokia and Pink Tiger. Having germinated the seeds and started the seedlings in a heated propagator […]
Don’t mess with me
I’ve got vegetables to grow..
Survive and Thrive
A distant memory of saffron. Wispy strands of deep red, climbing briefly from lilac flowers. How much I enjoyed growing saffron crocus a year ago. But after giving up 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 […]
The quest for purple
This’ll slay ’em, I thought. Take a pot full of beautiful purple-leaved basil and make purple pesto. Mmm .. one of the most delicious Italian sauces but with a visual […]
