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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 […]
Tag Archives: veggies
Don’t mess with me
I’ve got vegetables to grow..
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 […]
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 […]
Heinous Horseradish
Or The plant that knew no boundaries … The unseasonal high temperatures – 12C with five days to go until Christmas – left me no excuse to delay the inevitable […]
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 […]
Wet and Drying
How it must look to my neighbours is anybody’s guess. On weekday evenings I can frequently be found out in the garden in complete darkness, fumbling about with a flashlight […]
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 […]
Late season flourishes
Broccoli – what a waste of time. Oh, hang on… A while ago I more or less wrote off the broccoli I’d carefully tried to grow since the spring. The […]
