We enjoyed our first strawberries of the year today, a delicious variety called Rhapsody. We’ve been really busy and distracted with a lot of small projects this week and we had forgotten about them, so the first batch was really ripe, but we’ll now be harvesting every other day to enjoy them at their prime. You can’t beat a homegrown strawberry; the smell, the sweetness, the flavor. Exquisite.
We eat salad almost everyday for lunch over the course of the summer, but today’s salad is hard to beat with the rocket, lettuce, violas and brassica flowers coming directly …
We had our first bumper harvest of spinach this week, a variety called Trumpet F1 that we grew from seed, and we used it to make spinach soup.
This post is in response to an interesting question that was posed by Mark Crooks on one of our YouTube videos regarding our air source heat pump proposal and it’s …
When we undertook to plant our little orchard, we knew there’d be a learning curve, but we didn’t expect it to be so steep, so quick. We knew we’d have …
We’ve never grown chilies before, and we’ve undertaken growing three Scotch Bonnet plants in our conservatory this year. My wife has taken on the challenge and she’s done a superb …
Given that we live in the UK, I never thought I’d be thankful to see some rain. It’s the first decent rainfall we’ve had in six weeks (after the hottest …
We purchased a few packs of nematodes a couple of weeks ago from Nematodes Direct to help us organically and naturally remove certain pests from our raised beds.
The blazing hot month of May has prompted the grass in our field to bolt and grow at a rate we’ve not experienced before. Three weeks ago I strimmed our …