There is always time to stop and smell the flowers, and ponder ever pressing points. Such as why exactly did I grow so many courgette plants this year? This is today’s crop of courgettes. I’m trying to pick them so that the plants produce lots of little ones rather than […]
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Making lavender wands
Each year I make lavender wands to scent our clothes in their drawers. They hold their fragrance so well, that they really do last for a few years. The idea is that the stems form a frame around the lavender heads and a thin ribbon weaves in and out of […]
Read moreNot just a bowl of peas
Following GardenMama’s Wandering Wednesday, I thought I’d post my afternoon. It was a good day to harvest some of the peas in the garden. They seemed to swell in the pods as I stood there. We have been enjoying eating the peas straight from the pods. The children have started […]
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