Growing Things and Making Things

I know I'm well overdue for a gardening post, but first I want to tell you about this foraged plant. In my foraging challenge last year,...

Over the past few months I've produced several interesting vinegars by different methods, so I thought I'd tell you about them. Sev...

I had wanted to get my potatoes in the ground yesterday. Perhaps it's just as well I didn't manage it. This fell very loudly last n...

I finally got round to weeding and fertilizing the third and last asparagus bed this week. I should have done it in the autumn, but I reckon...

We've had a week of glorious sunny weather (ending abruptly late this morning. We're back in the clouds now.) which made it a pleas...

I wouldn't have thought that such a thing was possible, but here we are in mid March, I have lots of parsnips still in the ground and th...

I did some gardening last week, but the only plant I really tackled was a buddleia, which I cut back. That's a bit boring for a blog pos...

Just three days after I posted a letter asking for our old gas tank to be removed, a truck with a crane turned up on the driveway... I...

The gauge on our huge gas tank has been in the red for a while, and when it suddenly dropped to zero we knew we wouldn't get much more o...

At our last house, we had a magnificent lavender bush. I could just about reach from one side of it to the other and it took the best part o...