September bought us, amongst many other things, a lot of beans. Not our first beans – we’ve been picking them since June – but more beans…and now we are harvesting beans in pods, which is super exciting. I managed to get my hands on some new varieties this year, which […]

We have a fantastic aubergine colony with very productive slim fruits growing in our tunnel. We grow a variety called ‘long purple’, which are obviously happy where they are, as we pick from July through to the end of October and each week we harvest two or three aubergines from […]

Courgettes are not called summer squash without reason, as they only fruit well when the temperature is around 20 degrees Celsius, so although the plants grow and sprawl, they won’t do anything else until it warms up and stays there. One warm day is just confusing, as ideally they need […]

This month’s recipe is based loosely on pisto, a Spanish dish that is related in a Mediterranean way to the ratatouille of France and Caponata of Italy. It’s an everyday dish using summer vegetables cooked slowly, without fuss and often served with a fried egg on top. The runny yolk […]

Spring has well and truly arrived. Four seasons in one day make a regular appearance and the garden is thriving. Everything in the garden is very green and there are plenty of things sprouting at both ends of the vegetable growing spectrum. The new seeds are slowly uncurling, whilst last […]

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