by admin | Jul 14, 2020 | USING YOUR PRODUCE
Soup an easy way of increasing your daily vegetable intake. I really love soup and vegetable-based soups in particular. Pumpkin, carrot, minestrone, broccoli, mushroom, Borsch (beetroot), leek and potato, tomato, and basil, corn the list is endless. I love just...
by admin | May 14, 2020 | HOW TO GROW
There is a lot of interest around growing vegetables at the moment so I thought I would share with you a few tips on the best place to site your vegetable garden. These few tips will help get you off to a great start with growing and harvesting your own food. Your...
by admin | Mar 20, 2018 | AUTUMN
Early Autumn is by the far the busiest time of the year for me in the productive garden. In winter I have most of my major crops in so just do a little continuous planting of the quick harvest crops and spring though busy doesn’t have the franticness of autumn and...
by admin | Sep 30, 2017 | WHAT TO GROW WHEN
If you regularly follow my blog you will know I have a bit of a love affair with purple /red vegetables When I lasted looked I permanently grow: • Blueberries • Purple asparagus • Rhubarb with it brilliant red stems • Reb leafed sorrel • Figs And annually I regularly...
by admin | Jul 24, 2017 | USING YOUR PRODUCE
After picking a bunch of English spinach the other day I was looking for a new recipe to use it in and came across this recipe from Ocean Spray. It looked stunning was easy to put together so why not. As I rummaged through my cupboards and realised I did not...
by admin | Jul 1, 2017 | HOW TO GROW, What to plant this week, WINTER
With the end of June, I am thinking about the spring ahead and this week I am planting seed of Kale and Red and sugar loaf cabbage, just a few of each. Because I am raising my own seedlings I can control the number of plants I put in and with most plants a little...