The Netatmo home weather station is providing us with great weather data, and we’re loving it. What makes this system even cooler is that it has integration with IFTTT (If…

The butterflies have been out for weeks, and during my morning vegetable garden rounds I saw a few odd holes in some of our brussel sprout and broccoli leaves. You…

I remember very clearly being on holiday in Bali when Mars got horrible sunburn on his shoulders after a great day at the beach, so we went into town to…

We decided to add some new plants to the front of the house and porch. We planted some hostas, campanulas and violas by the door along with phloxes, penstemons and…

The weather from late spring into summer has been all over the radar. After a dry, sweltering May, the temperatures have remained on the cool side with a lot of…

Our courgettes in the vegetable garden are currently producing vast quantities of fruit, so we’re going to share our easy-to-make, exceptionally tasty courgette soup recipe with you.

We’ve seen a lot of awareness in the press in recent years about good gut health, but when you live as rural as we do then the health of your…

It’s taken us two years to get to this point but we need some serious equipment to help us maintain our field as the requirement to use more of it…

Adding to the fuschias, agapanthus, and kniphofias, we plant delphiniums, phygelius and penstemons in this video. We’ve now planted out the last of our perennials in the back garden, and…

We thought we had perfected our homemade stuffed crust pizza, but tonight we managed to take it to a whole new level courtesy of some new ingredients.