11 January 2018
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Lunch at work normally involves leftovers – something from a recent meal at home either sandwiched in bread or suitable to eat with a spoon or fork. Every now and then, after last night when dinner was itself reheated leftovers … Continue reading
7 August 2017
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Jane wanted “something Mexican” for dinner tonight as we had a ripe avocado to use up. A bit of searching – just “avocado” along with a list of a few other ingredients I knew we had, took me to an … Continue reading
19 August 2014
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Tonight we enjoyed an almost entirely homegrown salad: tomatoes, cucumber and basil. We didn’t grow the olives that produced the oil, the pepper plants that produced the peppercorns or produce our own salt or capers but I can claim the … Continue reading
6 June 2014
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That is admittedly a corny title but I wanted to celebrate the lettuce growing in my polytunnel; no shortage of salad at this time of year!
28 June 2013
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One of the plants which came with our present garden was Sedum spectabile (also known as the Ice Plant). It is a hardy and beautiful ornamental with a long season of interest; the seedheads last all winter and into the … Continue reading
16 May 2011
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These were sown at the end of March (see the record on Folia) and this is what they looked like on 12 April — tiny, insubstantial and not even a mouthful between them. Have a look at them now, with … Continue reading
20 March 2011
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Today’s DIY project was building a roof garden. No, not on the roof of our house (too steeply pitched and inaccessible!) but on the roof of the bike store I built earlier this month. We bought a small herb planter … Continue reading