Finger lime plant and fruit is quite an unusual and new plant to the UK. It’s grown in a much warmer climate like Australia. From the same family of lemons. It’s making an appearance here in the UK and Europe due to its demand for the flavours of the fruit. It does taste quite usual […]
At the moment I am still my niche of what I like to make or do with textiles. There is just so many to choose from!! Weaving, spinning wool, knitting, embriordery and so on. I have just recently done a direct mono print onto habotai silk. The results are pretty amazing however the images are
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Corn in their husk another corn plant with green foliage and ripen corn still in husk It’s now end of July I have growing some corn plants from seed since April. They have grown huge but get any corn out of them is a challenge in temperate climate like London. I have just had a
It’s summer now there plenty of courgette flowers in my vegetable plot. A courgette plant can produce a glut of flowers male and female ones. Easy to grow from seed and it doesn’t need much care or attention. I love courgette flowers as I love edible flowers great to look at and it’s edible. It’s
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borage flowers borage flowers Flowers are great to grow in one’s garden as it attracts bees to our garden and this will help to pollinate the flowers of the plants. As they are edible as they perform two roles at the same time. I bought some borage seeds online last year planted them in the
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I love spring and summer as it is a great growing time for homegrown edibles. Dwarf purple bean are one those beans that are great to grow in small garden and container growing. They don’t take too long to grow as from seed to bean production. Relatively disease free they much easier to grow than
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These alpine strawberries (fragaria vesca) are fruiting at the moment. They are a lot smaller than the usual ones you see in the supermarket but they are pack with flavour. These ones are white one which I started them off from seeds last year. Growing them indoors in the winter to protect them from frost.
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