Here is a blog post on how to grow and harvest gooseberry. Gooseberry is native the woodlands here in the UK so they are very easy to grow and don’t need much care. However, they are not much seen for n supermarket shelves. Personally, I have not seen them at all on supermarket shelves. I […]
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Here is a blog post on growing and harvesting coriander in a temperate country like the UK. It is much more hardy than some of its tropical cousins. . As you might know, I grew up in the warm tropical climate of Malaysia. Even after living in the UK for more than 20 years I
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It’s raspberry harvest season at the moment. This recipe raspberry yoghurt ice is a great recipe to use up those fresh raspberries harvested from the garden. It’s a great summer dessert or as a sweet snack for those hot summer days or hot climate/ weather. This recipe only uses 3 ingredients to make a simple
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It’s strawberry harvest season at the moment. Summer is here a good reason to make something nice and cold. A strawberry ice cream made from fresh strawberries. This strawberry ice cream uses fresh double cream and fresh strawberries. A bit of sugar and lemon or lime juice to give it more flavour. This ice cream
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It’s nearing to the end of tomato growing season. I have made sun dried tomatoes by using the oven. It’s too cold at the moment to dry the tomatoes in the sun as the temperature has plummeted recently to average daytime 20-16 deg cel here in London. The process of making sun dried tomatoes is
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Tomato harvest today Just been to the garden for a tomato harvest today. They are slowly beginning to ripen after being sown from seed from April. I have been given them broken horse manure and a weekly tomato feed. They have been grown in the sunniest spot in the garden. A south east facing spot.
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These are courgettes in garden this morning. It had cool weather over last few days now a few flowers and it is beginning to fruit. It is easy to grow, needs full sun and manure compost. One plant do produce a few or a glut of courgettes in a growing season. The flowers are edible