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Bird Fail=Success!
Stick with me and this will all make sense. We are in the middle of some cold weather but tonight we are to expect as low as -10C (that’s 14F). I was looking out the window and saw some birds were trying to get what little seeds were left on the feeder so I thought…
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Making Kefir Cheese
I like to experiment in the kitchen as well as the garden so the other day I thought I would try making the kefir cheese I’ve heard about. I got my tools together: bowl/jug, funnel, muslin I put the funnel in the jug I had and lined it with the muslin which I had soaked…
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Attempting to heat a polytunnel + an Autumn garden
I was thinking the plants in the polytunnel might be getting a bit cold since the daily temperatures have plummeted around here. I know people often use fancy greenhouse heaters but I don’t have one and I didn’t want to risk anything that would burn it down so soon after I actually got it put…
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Kitchen Fail – beware YouTube recipes!
I like to experiment in the kitchen as well as the garden but sometimes they don’t work out too well so I’ll be more careful about YouTube recipes from now on! I’d made a lovely dinner – some chicken noodley thing with various veg thrown in. I found a packet of some tasty spicy paste…
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Save compost and time with this method for sowing larger seeds
Have you ever sowed a lot of large seeds like squash only to have a few come up? Then you think ‘what a waste of compost’! Well, as I’m running out of space in my ‘seed nursery’ in the living room, I decided I could only use the seeds which I knew would germinate –…
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Carrot sowing with a difference!
I told you the other day I had exciting carrot news to share with you, (weird thing to be saying I know), using a system of sowing which is totally new to me. If you remember, in a previous post, I showed how I used kitchen roll which I had dampened and sprinkled the carrot…
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Trying a new method for carrot seeds
The weather has continued to be absolutely rotten all weekend so there was no way an allotment trip was going ahead. Also I have managed to develop what I think is bursitis on my left knee so any sort of kneeling was out of the question. That meant indoor gardening…after making soup, chicken balti and…
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Seed Saving Experiment
I usually try to save some of my own seeds from plants I’ve grown in the year. This year I’ve managed to get: Tomato Nasturtium Peas Coriander Poppy Fennel (or dill, not sure!) Broad beans Calendula Cosmos I left a couple of onion plants on the plot which had grown seed heads. I haven’t tried…
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Whats the first thing you blogged about?
September – there’s something about this time of year that makes a lot of us reflective. Maybe its a natural feeling of things slowing down – although us gardeners or homeschoolers will tell you thats a myth! I’ve been pondering over my previous posts and it occurred to me, the first line I ever ‘blogged’…
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