Every year I spend a small fortune on strawberries. I love them, the children will eat them until they ….. actually I’m not sure when they would stop, and my husband adores the little red berries too. We make them into jam, syrup, add them to ice cream and, of […]
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A brown bag of peas
In between the cold rain and doing the things that I really should be doing, I managed to do some gardening. The lilac and blossom is smelling wonderful. I am still planting up the extended kitchen garden. On my plan are two rows of peas. Today I went to my […]
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There was a time when we had 10 hens that laid every day. That was 70 eggs, without fail, every week. Week in, week out. At that stage, we were a small family of three and there are only so many eggs that we could eat. I gave lots away, […]
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I’ve started to plant up the extended kitchen garden. First in were the runner beans. They have been growing quite nicely in the greenhouse. I like to reserve a few plants to make a runner bean house for the children. The idea is that as the runner beans grow their […]
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