Garden

  • Keeping Spring Onions

    A little tip my from my grandma. When she buys spring onions from the shops or if I give her some from my garden she replants them into a little pot to keep them fresh! Perfect!

  • Green Tomato Chutney Recipe

    What to do with my green tomatoes? Many of them will slowly ripen sitting on the windowsill, but I’ll still have enough to create something fantastic! My Mexican cooking isn’t great but I’ll experiment a little…. Here’s a green tomato chutney recipe that’s brilliant with cold meats, cheese, pastries and BBQs! Oh, this chutney is […]

  • Attack! The Evil Cherry Slug

    Oh no, my poor little cherry tree has been destroyed by the rotten cherry slug. My tree has been devastated by them. They are disgusting looking bastards, slimy and gooey, and erky. Ok, I couldn’t stand looking at them anymore and I had to save my defenseless tree. There are a few ways to get […]

  • Growing Potatoes

    Potatoes, I love ’em! And I love to grow them too! Did you know you can get potato plants from the potatoes you eat?! The thing is, you have to cut out their eyes! Ewwwww! Actually, it’s not so bad. Potato eyes are the indents on the skin where the potato forms small growths that […]

  • Eggplant Soup Recipe

    I love eggplants/aubergines, they are so so pretty and so delicious! When I have way too many to know what to do with, or they’re cheap at the market, I make this scrummy soup! Eggplant Soup Recipe 3 large eggplants (you can use the smaller thinner varieties too) 5 cloves crushed garlic 1/2 red chili […]