When I first got my half an allotment plot back in January, I had to decide what to try and grow in my first year. I decided to concentrate on things that gave a good return on the effort required to grow them (things like beans and squashes that keep on cropping as you pick),…
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(This one’s for Christina, who asked me to share the recipe for these over a month ago – sorry its taken me so long!) It is officially ‘Soup Season’ again in our household. We don’t tend to go for soup when the weather is warm, but now that the days are shorter, darker, colder and…
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