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  • Ten things
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  • Bran Muffins 3 ways
  • Zucchini Tomato Sauce
  • Bacon, Chorizo and Vege stew
  • Blueberry, Ginger and Walnut bread
  • Cheese roll filling – aka Cheese “Crack”
  • Chilli Cornbread

Tag: gardening

Zucchini Tomato Sauce
Gardening / homegrown / Homemade / Love food hate waste / No Waste / Preserving / Recipes / recycling
  • February 5, 2023
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  • 3 mins
  • 2 years
  • 317 words
  • 8

Zucchini Tomato Sauce

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 courgette harvest sauce recipe. I used tinned tomatoes as our […]

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Homemade dried herbs
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  • February 3, 2023
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  • 2 mins
  • 2 years
  • 221 words
  • 3

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 had.  I like to pick big bunches and hang them […]

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Sunflowers
Creatures / Gardening / homegrown
  • January 21, 2023
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  • 1 min
  • 2 years
  • 120 words
  • 10

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 the garden at the moment.  This is the second batch […]

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Microgreens experiment
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  • April 17, 2020
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  • 2 mins
  • 5 years
  • 212 words
  • 3

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 sure that we are getting some variety, I thought I […]

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Using our paper pots
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  • October 28, 2018
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  • 1 min
  • 7 years
  • 87 words
  • 10

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 a tin with some holes punched in the bottom as […]

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How to: Newspaper Seed Pots
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  • October 28, 2018
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  • 3 mins
  • 7 years
  • 342 words
  • 31

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 no bother for our vege seedlings which are tucked up […]

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Easy Pickled Chillies
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  • March 31, 2018
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  • 3 mins
  • 7 years
  • 322 words
  • 3

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 had great success growing chillies in our garden and since […]

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A tale of a fig tree
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  • March 27, 2018
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  • 3 mins
  • 7 years
  • 367 words
  • 3

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 if this would be the night that the roof finally […]

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Pumpkin Soup
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  • June 21, 2017
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  • 2 mins
  • 8 years
  • 291 words
  • 8

Pumpkin Soup

Pumpkin soup is my all time favourite.  Unfortunately Hubby doesn’t feel the same way so I don’t often get to make it.  There are hundreds of Pumpkin soup recipes on the internet but this it […]

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Compost and free gardening
Gardening / recycling / Sustainability
  • March 9, 2017
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  • 2 mins
  • 8 years
  • 255 words
  • 5

Compost and free gardening

Hubby built us a new compost bin a few weeks back.  We had one of those black plastic ones that looked like a Dalek and it couldn’t cope with the amount of stuff that we […]

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