Growing Things and Making Things

At the beginning of this month, I reviewed our poor diet and decided to give the 5/2 diet a try . This means severely restricting calories -...

This has taken me longer than it might have done because I keep getting distracted by things like gardening and visiting relatives. Also, I ...

It's been a couple of months since I last posted a garden update . Would you like a look around... see how things are doing? Starting i...

I've kept four of last year's parsnips in the ground to produce seeds for next year. They've grown big and flowered, and mostly ...

OK, this took me a little longer to get round to as it wasn't just a matter of editing my previous post with the quantity of sugar used...

The blackcurrant bushes have done me proud yet again. This is not all of the blackcurrants, oh no. I can take no credit for this. The bush...

Sorry, this is another post about diet - I'm a little obsessed at the moment. I'm still thinking about the government advice to get ...

You'd think, what with foraging and growing vegetables, that my diet would be pretty healthy, wouldn't you? Well, I kind of assumed ...

About six weeks ago, I was delighted to spot a blackbird spending some time wiping the slime off a slug. I didn't actually see the slug ...

This wasn't an experiment, so I'm just guessing what's going on here. I don't usually bother too much about what I sow my se...