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When it works as it should, you can’t knock the Vortex home sewage treatment plant that the previous owners installed. It works brilliantly. In three years, however, we have learnt …

Last year, we grew Maris piper potatoes and we had a really good haul. While it was decent amount of potatoes, we had to discard a lot of the potatoes …

We harvested our onions and shallots about six weeks ago, and they’ve been curing in our open garage. It’s taken a really long time for the onions in particular to …

The path to sustainability and growing your own food is not always an easy one. The weather in our part of the world this summer just hasn’t been kind to …

We’ve been reviewing a lot of battery-operated gardening equipment this year, and one of the most useful pieces of kit you can have is a trimmer and brush cutter to …

I always thought I’d enjoy home-brewing beer and I’m enjoying the process more and more after every batch. It’s the Czech-style we produced in June that has really triggered a …

This week we put up another Netatmo security camera to monitor our back garden, which was a tricky installation because we needed to drill through a thick, insulated wall to …

We saw a post on Stone Croft Skye recently (a blog that we follow) that inspired me to pickle some of our F1 mini cucumbers that have been prolific in …

The dahlias have finally exploded and they are flowering like crazy offering a wonderful array of colour to the garden and the vases inside the house. We have over 30 …

When it comes to cleaning products, we’ve always tried to use natural products over synthetic ones because we’ve always thought that they are better for us and the environment. We’ve …