Happy New Year! I’m starting my year on the blog as I mean to go on – with excessive photographs of plants. Here is a snapshot of the garden on January 1 2012. There are new peas everyday – they never make it inside because we always eat them right there, standing beside the garden. … Continue reading What the garden was doing at the turn of the new year…
Summer = season of green. Broad beans until we can’t face another broad bean. There are some great broad beans recipes HERE. I divided up my monster stinging nettle plant and now I have baby nettles thriving away. (Anyone local want a nettle plant?) There is a delicious herbal tea recipe featuring nettles HERE. It … Continue reading green bean serene
Sometimes I end up with an unexciting glut in the garden. Recently it was silverbeet. A silverbeet glut is not like a tomato glut, or an apple glut – where your friends will get excited and happily take bagsful off your hands or you can make bulk delicious things like ketchup and apple sauce. I … Continue reading unexciting gluts
The garden is warming up to the point that some of the things which have been in it over the winter are starting to bolt. I harvested my beetroots the other day, as they’d been in there since autumn. Time to pick them to make room for some more exciting summer vegetable. Beetroots are great … Continue reading peel the beet
Helen Lehndorf 