Picked from the garden today
on Nov 15, 2009 in Gardening Uncategorized Veggie Plot Beetroot carrots Chard scotch bonnet chillies tomatoes Today we gathered these from the garden, they looked so beautiful I thought I would share them with you. The chard is still growing and looking lovely, I picked it every couple of days and is one of our favourite vegetables. The tomatoes are still cr...

Pear and Ginger Muffins
on Nov 13, 2009 in Recipes Sweet ginger Muffins Pear This is one way to use the pear and ginger from a batch of non setting jam but you could also use the same weight in any other fruit mix that you like.  Apple would be good as would blueberries, raspberries. I would use the lower end of the fruit qu...

Pear and Ginger Jam
on Nov 13, 2009 in Recipes Sweet Uncategorized Conference pears ginger jam Muffins Pear syrup I have been experimenting with this for a couple of seasons now and found it works best with Conference pears here in England, it might be different in other parts of the world. It has to be said that I have had mixed results with this recipe due to...

Outside, Tomatoes in November!
on Nov 6, 2009 in Gardening Uncategorized Veggie Plot I cant believe we are still picking tomatoes in November, its seems wrong somehow but there is no one in this house complaining. These plants were rescued from a garden centre, they were freebies left on a table for anyone to take, so we did. We pott...

Autumn Raspberries
on Nov 6, 2009 in Gardening Uncategorized Veggie Plot apples Autumn bramley raspberries The last of the berries in the garden, these little red jewels are like bombs of flavour mixed in with Bramley apples. The raspberries turn the apple bright red and tastes absolutely delicious with a little sugar added, it is one of my favourite ways...

Nasturtiums
on Nov 5, 2009 in Food freebies Gardening Veggie Plot These nasturtiums were planted in the early summer, they have flowered constantly and even survived the three weeks on their own whilst we were abroad. I have harvested the seed pods and pickled them to see if it’s true that they are a good sub...

Getting back in the groove.
on Nov 4, 2009 in Uncategorized Today is the 4th November and I have picked Swiss Chard for the garden, we still have tomatoes and chillies outside, we are not unusual this year as it seems several others I know are experiencing the same bonus due to the very clement weather, we ho...

The New Fruit Cage.
on Jul 3, 2009 in Gardening Veggie Plot Fruit cage After much thought as to whether it would be a sensible option and being assured that the netting used would be to small for birds to get trapped we ordered a fruit cage. We were  getting to the point where we either gave up trying to grow soft frui...

Harvesting
on Jul 3, 2009 in Gardening Veggie Plot carrots Harvesting. charlotte potatoes to harvest… yes! I dug up the garlic, it has been much more successful this year so planting in November seems to work for me. The Arran Pilot potatoes are just fabulous, as are the carrots (from the tubs and planters) and the lettuce that we s...

Garlic
on Jul 3, 2009 in Gardening Veggie Plot garlic garlic plaiting A couple of weeks back I dug up the garlic and left it in the shed to dried out.  I wanted to try and plait it so I could hang it in the kitchen ready for use. Today I made my first attempt at plaiting having read up how to plait garlic on a blog by...