The next chapter in the Zucchini glut saga is making some zucchini tomato sauce. I have loosely based this on Nicola Galloway’s Roasted tomato and …
Zucchini Tomato Sauce
Category: homegrown
Homemade dried herbs
I have an abundant herb garden and all of the plants are going nuts at the moment with the rain and hot weather we have …
Homegrown Potatoes
Yesterday we harvested our first attempt at growing potatoes. We didn’t get as many as we were hoping for but we were pleased with the …
Sunflowers
Welcome to the weekend! Today I thought I would share with you some photos of the sunflowers that are giving us a beautiful show in …
Zucchini glut!
We are currently experiencing a zucchini glut in our garden and in desperation I turned to Google for some ideas to use them up. I …
Microgreens experiment
While in lockdown, we are trying to make sure that we maintain eating our 5 plus a day. So far, so good but to make …
Using our paper pots
So now that you have made loads of newspaper plant pots, you can fill them up and put them somewhere warm to sprout. We use …
How to: Newspaper Seed Pots
Spring has definitely sprung down here in our part of the world, although we are experiencing a last gasp cold snap this weekend. This is …
Easy Pickled Chillies
Our chilli plants are producing fruit in abundance at the moment and I harvested a whole bunch more ripe ones this morning. We have always …
A tale of a fig tree
It was a dark and stormy night. Wellington’s infamous wind was crashing through the trees and whistling around the rooftops. I was lying awake, wondering …