Squash tallies
For a squash addict, it’s been a bit of a miserable year. I’ve put out plant after plant and slugs ate them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. This year slugs have a new trick […]
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Beryl
Summer’s here! (kinda…)
Gluts haven’t quite arrived, bar a sudden surfeit of padron peppers, but I can see them a-coming on the horizon! Just need a bit more sun to start turning more […]
Edible Italy and lemongrass love
This week my plot and flat are in the safe hands of others to water and check on. We’ve decamped to Italy, to stay with Him Indoors’ family. Castelleale is […]
Touch wood, spit widdershins, throw salt over left shoulder…
I have no more blight in the greenhouse! Admittedly the plants are ugly and have been plucked almost bald. The survivors are definitely alive – there are new leaves and no […]
I heart allotmenteers
When I got up to the plot the other night there were 4 ripe figs sat on top of an upturned pot outside my shed door. Lionel has a fabulous […]
Bastani – saffron, rosewater and pistachio ice-cream
I absolutely adore ice-cream. Like one of my Norwegian cousins, I will happily sit and eat it till I’m sick/it’s all gone. Until recently my favourite flavour was krokan: vanilla […]
Dear 2016, you suck.
If this year’s allotmenteering were the Pilgrim’s Progress, right now I would be squarely in the Slough of Despond. I went into the greenhouse last night and discovered I have blight. […]
First. Time. Ever.
Warning: small amount of trumpet-blowing to follow. August’s Grow Your Own magazine has my grinning face at the top of page 36! This is my first ever gardening article and I […]
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