Last year I told you that despite it being the opposite of eggplant season,
I crave eggplant parmesan incessantly each winter. I mean, who doesn’t want
a...
Columnar Apple (Malus domestica) OSTANKINO A Russian columnar apple
variety, that is one of the best disease resistant apple varieties.
The post Apple ph...
[image: Tomatoes on my patio allotment]
I've run a couple of tomato trials this year. The first is a revisit of the biochar
trial with Oxford Universit...
We've had the moth trap for around 10 months, though much of that was
winder and a very cold spring. Moth identification is very difficult. Even
within ...
In my new job working at my local plant nursery I get to wander around the
greenhouses during my lunch break. And I have to admit that I am developing
a Be...
Companion Beneficial for Benefit Basil Tomatoes, aubergines, most fruit
Attracts aphids from primary crops, also said to improve the flavour of
tomatoe...
The weekly market at Kotpad, which takes place on Tuesdays
Odisha is billed as one of India's best-kept secrets, but in reality, it is
one of the nation's...
I bought a pomegranate tree about 7 years ago. It spent a couple of years
in a pot and then I planted it out to a spot that gets a reasonable amount
of aft...
Riding the D010 along Turkey's Black Sea coast The 1,200 miles across
Turkey was a good time for reflection. The days were warm and the nights
cool. Most o...
Blogging feels very retro these days. I started this blog in 2009 and then
abandoned it in 2012 and lately I've been thinking about getting back on it
agai...
Amazing how we grow and evolve. We follow our passions and goals; they
evolve and come in and out of focus. For example, I started this blog
because I l...
There’s no denying that when you live in a place you often don’t make an
effort to visit many of its attractions, probably because you think that
there wil...
First time a bait hive has worked for me. I have swarms arrive and take up
residence in piles of bee boxes, where they weren't welcome, but never into
a p...
Don’t own acres of rolling New Zealand countryside or a trusty beekeeping
outfit? Here’s my cheat’s guide to making your very own ‘mocknuka’ honey
from h...
Joseph Strutt, *A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of
England*, First published in 1796, reprinted, 1841.
From this terrific yellow cov...
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