Rich decided to make a cheese and tomato sandwich using my homegrown toms. He was a bit disappointed last year - they’d grown fast and the plants were leggy and the result seemed to be fairly watery, tasteless tomatoes. We don’t know if the lack of flavour was down to our tomato variety Cristal F1, [...]
About three or four years ago I decided that I didn’t want the fig in a large pot where it was. So in a moment of madness, I dug a big hole and dragged, heaved and eventually dropped the fig - pot and all - into the hole and earthed it all back in. But [...]
Usually I would be moaning my socks off about the rain, the dreaded rain! But it’s actually a welcome relief, things were starting to look a bit parched, and I imagine my water butt is brimming again. Of course, it also saves me all the watering of an evening too. Not such a bad chore, [...]
On the allotment, I managed to inherit two large patches of rhubarb with some impressive crowns. I was actually surprised at how early you can harvest rhubarb, even without forcing it. See, I still have a lot to learn about growing veggies.
So off I trundled on Sunday, having decided that rhubarb crumble was on [...]
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