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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
