One of the ways we can get our children to housesit for us when we go off for a trip on our boat, is to provide them with vast quantities of food which is ready prepared , needing only minimal cooking or preparation. Faced with rather a surplus of ingredients in the fridge, left over from…
Category: GROWING VEGETABLES
Midweek Supper
Freshly boiled crabs from the South Coast of England, Oysters from Essex, Asparagus from the Garden, Homemade Mayonnaise from our own hens eggs, Homemade Organic Wholemeal Bread, all washed down with a little French number. Life doesn’t get better than this. I only went to West Mersea today to take the cockpit tent to the…
Strawberries,the quintessential English Summer Fruit
Phew, I succeeded in protecting these Mara des Bois from the recent frosts, courtesy of an emergency covering of fleece. Do not bother to grow the same varieties that you can buy in the supermarket, but instead go for the wonderful old- fashioned varieties that do not travel at all well, and thus are not…
Never a Dull Moment in the Vegetable Garden at this time of year
Much of the morning was spent clearing up, and burning, a mass of old Bamboo canes and prunings from our several rather large clumps. It was disconcerting to suddenly have the Fire-Brigade wandering round the garden looking for the inferno that a well-meaning passer-by had reported some 15 minutes earlier. Admittedly I was taken by surprise when the large heap went up like…
War on waste in my Vegetable Garden
Growing your own vegetables is great, but don’t fall into a Garden Centre fuelled spiral of buying endless bamboo canes/ plastic netting/ posts etc with which to pursue your hobby. Use every natural resource that you can lay your hands on like the cottage gardeners of old. Do not be responsible for adding to landfill…
ARABELLA'S AMBROSIA 
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