Gardening bore
146. Autumn love, preserving like a boss, and a trip to the Rhodopes
Autumn is my favourite time of year – specifically that dreamy early September period when the evenings are cold enough for a sweater but the days are hot enough for shorts and flip flops, and the leaves are *just* starting to turn. And the food! Oh my, I love...
145. How not to be self-sufficient
It’s weird what we prioritise. We’ve never planned to be truly self-sufficient – we just don’t have the land or time for that – but we’re always looking to cut down what we have to buy from shops. However, rather than being self-sufficient in obvious things like...
143. Courgettes. Walkies.
Freaking hell, it’s August. How did that happen? Here’s a not-so-brief rundown of what we’ve been up to lately. For those who are short on time, this post can be neatly summarised as follows: courgettes galore monastery fun death walk from hell For those who are...
140. So long, supermarket suckers
I love this time of year. Not because the weather is glorious and the garden looks better every week (although it is and it does). No, I love this time of year because every day we’re eating food from our garden. Even if it’s just a simple salad, the ability to nip...
139. June in the veg garden
After months of me moaning about the slow start to spring, June has been pretty lovely to us so far. I think we’ve had maybe one day of rain over the last two weeks, which feels like a miracle after that soggy, cold spring. Surprisingly, despite the traitorous...
137. Soggy
From what I can gather from Facebook, emails, etc. it’s been glorious in the UK lately. Lucky old them. It’s still cold and rainy here and I’m getting really cheesed off with it. I mean, spring is usually quite wet and very stormy (which I love), so I don’t mind...
136. Flower power
I never thought I’d get into flowers. Not because I thought flowers were lame or anything – I just couldn’t imagine expending precious gardening time and energy on things I couldn’t stuff in my mouth. But, little by little, flowers have drawn me in. We started our...
135. Arctic spring, tomato fail and other fun
Hello! Yes, we’re still here and haven’t been swallowed by a sinkhole (literally my worst fear). We had friends come to stay, then we went back to the UK for a week, then I had lots of work to catch up on. That sentence pretty much sums up what’s been happening...
134. Return of the wonky polytunnel and a summer kitchen teaser
Lordy, where is April going? We’ve both been working such long days, there hasn’t been much time to update the blog. But here’s a brief whizz through what’s been occurring of late. We made the usual dyed eggs and hot cross buns for Easter Sunday....
132. Asparagus high
Not much to update y’all on this week as I’m working all hours at my laptop and Rob is working all hours on the summer kitchen. Except… Literally the most exciting thing to happen all week. Possibly ever. …our first ever proper asparagus harvest!!!...
131. Gluten high (or, how we built a pizza oven)
You know what marks the official start of spring for us? Is it the first spring flowers? No. Is it the first sighting of a stork? Nope. Working outside in a t-shirt? Blossoms on the fruit trees? The Game of Thrones trailer being released? No. Non. Ne. For us,...
130. Confessions of a hypochondriac gardening bore
This week’s news: I’ve still got a cold. My ears are so bunged up, I greet everything Rob says with a loud ‘What??’, which I’m sure he finds thoroughly charming, even after 10 days. I’m still coughing up interesting things, too. All comedy has been banned after...