Posts in category Garden

Borlotti beans in jar, money in the food bank. And more tomatoes and zucchini sliced and in dehydrator.

Finally the kitchen is being rebuilt. Following are some pictures of the cabinets being put in – they are a little further advanced by now, but these pictures give the …

Oh, wait for it, later today you will be getting some lovely pictures! Suddenly I have an (almost) working kitchen!!  Come back in 8 hours or so …..  ————— Later ————— …

The kitchen garden is going great guns, even though I have been quite ill these past few weeks and unable to attend it. The carrot and pea harvests are all …

Thank you for allowing me my rant. I really, really needed to do that. As Juliet said in the comments, everyone deals with cancer differently, everyone suffers a different kind …

My sister has gone and I am sad.  But she did help a fair bit with the garden, and one afternoon picked a huge tub of peas which we then …

May not hear much from me over the next week or so, but fear not. My sister is over for a holiday and she won’t let me sit tied to …

Oh, the weather here has been nasty for the past week or so. Very warm, very humid, and with such a high pollen count it is affecting even me. Of …

Yesterday I started up a pot of Officer’s Jam. I’ve been dying to make this for years and am happy I finally found a nice big ceramic pot big enough. …

Busy in the garden today – have taken the nets off the growing bush beans (and will later need to reseed 3 rows of one variety which simply hasn’t come …