Over the pandemic, I quietly broke up with every pizza dough recipe I’ve
shared to date. I know I have some nerve only telling you this now. The
family w...
[image: Bulbalicious hyacinths]
We had a lovely welcome home from the garden in the shape of these
bulbalicious hyacinths greeting us at our front door w...
People say WHAT do you mean ?? In talking to the old timers on our local
allotment, nobody seems to
The post Determinate and Indeterminate Potatoes ?? ap...
I first saw cloud pruning done at Peninsula Park rose garden in Portland,
Oregon. I went there for a one-day rose pruning course and the person
teaching it...
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 ...
Companion Beneficial for Benefit Basil Tomatoes, aubergines, most fruit
Attracts aphids from primary crops, also said to improve the flavour of
tomatoe...
There are annual spicy plants that you can grow very easily and quickly.
Literally within 2-3 weeks, mustard, coriander and arugula will already
give spi...
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...
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...
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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Wow! I've never seen a bluebell garden in the wood by my own eyes. I hope I can be there.
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