Summer onions out… Winter onions in. Still they come, young and oh so sweet! Even sweeter, the best I’ve ever tasted. First ever home grown apricots. The parsley has been particularly strong and flavoursome this year… and the Accidental Orchards’ underplanting of wild flowers is beginning to bloom. There have been mallows, cornflowers, love-in-a-mist and …
This year I’ve decided to grow more herbs, for drying as well as using fresh. So far I have lovage, curly parsley, basil, chives, corriander and sage growing in the greenhouse. All the rest of the herbs in the new herb area were bought from a specialist herb nursery. For some strange reason I’ve always …
Unbelievably, it actually stopped raining for a few hours today, so off I raced into the front garden to tidy up a little. I’ve noticed that the bulbs are shooting up, so I thought I’d make a start by clearing the leaves from the Lavender hedge, to see what lurked beneath. Lots of bulbs showing …
Last week drastic measures were taken to finally rid a hedgehog of ringworm. Despite daily treatment this hog still has ringworm around his ruff, so now it has been decreed that the only way to cure him is to bathe him in a formula twice a week. I’ve never bathed a hog before, so this …
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Christmas has come and gone in the usual blur. I’ve enjoyed lots of gatherings with family and friends, especially going to this veggie cafe with a bunch of pals, it’s very bohemian. You order your meal and then chill with your own alcohol around a simple wooden table, so much cheaper and more relaxing than …
