The Mad Gnomes Strike Again!

This is the first year that I might have some success growing celeriac. I love this knobbly root vegetable, but haven't eaten it for at ...

Yesterday's mozzarella, after it was cut. Look at the lovely layers. That's how I like my mozzarella! It's fantastic with fresh ...

One of the quickest and easiest cheeses to make. I use the recipe from this website . Ingredients: • 1 1⁄2 Level teaspoons Citric Ac...

Also known as Tree Onions, Perennial Onions, etc. This is a groovy kind of plant to have in the garden. I received bulblets from a gardening...

We pruned our hydrangeas extremely late last year. Despite that fact, we still have quite a lot of flower heads. Usually, however, you see a...

They are looking stunning again this year!

Yes, that time of the year again. Hollyhocks! As most of you already know - these are one of my favourite flowers! Double salmon coloured. S...

The berry patch has been very good to us this year. It got off to a slow start due to the cool weather but once it got going in the middle o...

The last two days were foggy and damp. Weird weather for summer. And it only got up to 19C yesterday. I am not complaining, as I don't l...

...give you tomatoes AND beans, and you have your own lettuce and potatoes from your garden - you have to make Salade Nicoise. Mop up the le...

...give you tomatoes. You appreciate them immensely (the friends and tomatoes. Of course). And try to do the best you can with them (the tom...

Most of the times I leave vegetable plants in their beds, long after they have finished producing vegetables. Mainly because they flower pro...

There is an organic cherry orchard just down the road. The season started late due to the cold and rainy spring/start to summer. So there ar...

This must be one of the easiest things to make! The basic recipe from Stephanie Alexander: 500g red currants 2 1/4 cups sugar (I used 1 3/4 ...

I harvested some 'fat garlic' last year. They were single fat bulbs. I suspected they were the result of some elephant garlic that I...