Last year, we used the nettles in our field to make nettle soup (which was really tasty) and to make nettle tea (a natural fertiliser). This year, we’re still making batches of nettle tea, but we have experimented with a new use for them: nettle beer. This is an extremely sustainable form of brewing, and this recipe (if you have some basic equipment) cost us around £3 to make just under 4.5 litres.
We have two cats: Olive (a female British Shorthair) and Leopold (a male domestic shorthair). Olive is a bit of dustbin and also has a sensitive tummy, while Leopold is …
Building raised beds is a creative and fun project, but when they’re built they need to be filled with soil. Given the wet weather we’ve had so far in May, …
My inspiration for gardening came from my grandfather who was a very passionate, amateur gardener. A few years ago we inherited all his gardening tools, many of which were decades …
As lockdown restrictions across the UK are lifted, people are beginning to think about holidays again, so it’s a good time to review Solid Cologne UK (SCUK), a natural, wax-based …
As a follow up to our recent post about the crazy price of timber, I had a very successful visit to our local wood merchants and hardware store earlier this …
It has been quite a challenging year for gardening so far because the weather has been so unstable and changeable. May has been extremely wet, overcast and cold, and everything …
We decided that we would extend our vegetable garden this year and make some 2×2 metre raised beds in the field so that we can grow sprawling vegetables like pumpkins …
One of our main summer projects this year is to build raised beds for cut flowers. We are building them in the front garden, and this year Kirsten has decided …