Its that time of year again. My first act each morning is to check on the seedlings in the windowsill propagator. I sowed my first chillies on 11th February, and they have long-since been pricked out and placed in my experimental light-reflecting box nearby. Since then peppers have been sown and have germinated, the first…
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(Sorry the photos are so naff, I never have learnt the art of indoor photography…) Its very windy here today. Not the kind of windy that the poor people of Queensland have just lived through, or as wintry as has hit the USA and Canada in the past few days, but the silver birches were…
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I had a near-perfect weekend. It involved cooking, eating, drinking, chatting, watching “Strictly Come Dancing” (yes, I know…). I discovered that stale bread sticks make wonderful garlic croutons to accompany freshly made soup, adding peanut butter to butternut squash in a soup really does work, and that we will never be a household who hold…
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I love growing things from seed. I particularly love starting things off in the autumn, just as everything else is dying back. But I have a problem. My garden is only 10m x 10m, and the trees, bamboo and evergreen shrubs I planted to screen us from the neighbours take up a largish chunk of…
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I love autumn. I love those periods of transition. Digging out the fleeces, woolly jumpers, gloves, feeling the crisp air. I love that elusive smell that says “summer is over, everything is changing”. I’m excited when the leaves turn brilliant colours, and at the same time love the sense of preparing to batten down the…
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