First strawberry today. I ate it before I took a photo.
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
Potato Onions & Walking Onions
To be honest, they didn’t look like much when Lee gave them to us, but now, perhaps a year later the potato onions have formed two big clumps and the walking onions have ‘walked’ into two new clumps.
I presume that this autumn, or just later in the summer, we can dig up the potato onions, [...]
Cherry Blossom and Broad Beans
It must be spring, I heard a cuckoo yesterday, we have started eating broad beans and the cherry blossom has become tiny cherries (although my photo was taken while the site was down and is still beautiful blossom).
The broad beans are still very tiny, but are fantastic in stir-fries, which I am amazingly managing to [...]
Horsey Help
Maurice helping me weed the garden. He was very good and even stuck to the paths between the beds!
WEEDLESS GARDENING
Author – L. Reich
An interesting book about no-dig gardening.
Marvellous March Munch
Here’s last night’s dinner with everything except the rice produced from the garden! Everything, including food, is so colourful this time of year.
Ingredients picked fresh from the garden.
Stir-fried beetroot, onion, broccoli, pumpkin, brussels sprouts, and asparagus. Sounds like an odd combination but it tasted wonderful!
Add rice, spinach and coriander and we have an Organic Spring [...]
Cleaning the Water Tank
We’ve been meaning to clean out the water tank for ages but of course all the other jobs took priority until we were watering the gardens a couple of days ago and the water pressure dropped and the hoses started spluttering, stopping, spluttering again. After I’d fiddled around opening taps all over the place [...]
New Beginnings
Well, all our websites got hacked. And we were very much less than impressed with the way our hosts handled the situation. So we’ve moved to a new hosting company whose servers are fully powered by the sun and the wind!
Unfortunately in the process I managed to lose the backup of the old blog (totally [...]
