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Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
It is once again the time of year when the rhubarb crowns go from “tiny new spring-announcing shoots” to “enormous rhubarb-triffids” pretty much overnight. Rhubarb crumble is good, as is rhubarb jam,...
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Germination and experimentation
I’ve had better success with carrot germination this year than in previous years, on both allotment and balcony. This might be due to very thick sowing; the rate is still poor, but the actual number is...
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Planting salad leaves in late summer
It may already be the end of July, but it’s not too late to plant a few salad leaves for this season. Unlike a lot of vegetables, which really do need the whole of the summer to produce a reasonable...
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Experiments in free(ish) jelly
It’s been a fantastic year for berries, so I decided the time had come to experiment with rosehip and hawthorn jellies. Finding a sufficiency of rosehips and haws to cook up was straightforward; half...
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Vegan chickweed pesto
There’s not that much growing at this time of year; but you will find fresh chickweed in UK gardens and allotments, even in the middle of the snow. It’s usually considered a weed, but in fact it’s...
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Carbon & veganism
I wrote about veganism as carbon footprint reduction over on Carbonfeet last week.
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Spring harvest!
This week: the first harvest of broad beans from the garden. Two generous and insanely tasty portions eaten with baked sweet potatoes and baked tofu. And a big bowl of fresh green leaves – the lettuces...
View ArticleAdventures in Parenting: food from the garden
It’s taken a looong time this year (possibly because of June’s dreadful weather), but finally I am regularly harvesting food from the garden*. Carrots (my first ever really decent carrot crop!),...
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I have been making this at Xmas for well over 10 years, and every so often someone asks me for the recipe and I spend ages digging through my email for it. So here it is, for future reference. It is...
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Winter cooking
The rosemary in the back garden is doing well enough that even at this time of year, I could go out and hack four decent-size sticks off it with no concern: When I took that, I’d already put half the...
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