Growing Things and Making Things

It's been ferociously windy here for the last few days, but the garden needs attention, so I ventured out this afternoon. On the advice ...

Having read enthusiastic accounts of how beer can be made from scratch, including growing the hops and mashing the malt, I had decided not t...

In the garden of our last house, I planted five crowns of asparagus. These need time to get established before the spears can be harvested, ...

I'm suffering from a lack of motivation for gardening at the moment, which is why you haven't heard much about it recently. This is ...

The thing that gets me about home brew is the amount of washing up involved. Everything needs washing, sterilising, then washing again (unle...

This week, I have mostly been picking dandelions. Dandelions drying. They take 2-3 days to dry in the conservatory. The first tray I pick...

I may have got a little overexcited and started this post before we'd actually eaten the beans... This is the third attempt, and I...

I started drafting this post a while back. It was a rather waffly discussion of the various reasons people might want to spend time on craft...

We'd been invited to the first birthday party of a friend's baby, and about a week before the party I suddenly realised we hadn'...

After several days of rain, the sun's out again. Warm and wet - perfect growing weather. Primroses and violets growing round the base...