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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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