The blog is getting a bit more of a weekly, rather than a daily activity. But just for the regulars, to whom I have repeatedly moaned about a lack of purple sprouting broccoli. I can at last reveal, we have eaten so much we’re nearly bored of it! Not quite bored as its so damn [...]
I know, I can’t believe it either… even MORE shameless self promotion! The Catalan Gardener did an interview! It’s all about olive leaf benefits. Thanks to Jeanne from Sevenoaks it means the All That’s Olive site gets a bit of publicity. So maybe more people will buy olive leaf tea! One can only hope! But [...]
Yes, dear reader we’ve had snow all morning! Just when I was despairing about the rain it changed to snow. Last month I was working in shorts and vest, feeling smug about life in Spain! I was even mean spirited enough to text family to gloat about the soaring temperatures. I should know better, such [...]
I guess the title says it all. It’s been hammering it down all day. The cisterna under the living room is filling up nicely. Which is a positive to lift my spirits after a fortnight of decidedly dubious weather. I ventured out with the three dogs of doom who are VERY mental at the mo [...]
Update. After writing this post and finding more information about tomato growing I found a fantastic guide to getting the absolute most from your tomatoes. It is full of great information on all aspects of growing tomatoes. It is really cheap because it is an e-book, which means you get it delivered straight away by [...]
Apologies to regular readers. But, if you do not want to witness any more shameless self promotion, look away now… Right, since we live in the middle of Olive Country and provide ourselves with olive oil and table olives it seemed apt we would have an olive based site. Called All That’s Olive, the site [...]
Oh Joy! The first of the real ‘summer’ crops went into the ‘huerto‘ this week. I couldn’t help smiling with anticipation at all the tomatoes, peppers, chili’s, cucumbers and aubergines to come. These are the real Mediterranean vegetables of summer and the reason I garden. More of all these will go in again in another [...]
I was a tad miffed to say the least when, within days of agreeing a weekly sale of spare eggs, we had two hens taken by the mystery mountain poultry muncher. A few days later two more pullets were put in the chicken coop to be picked on, not allowed any food (particularly lettuce or [...]
[ad#big-square] We are in the middle of Wild Asparagus season at the moment. And, a delightful season it is too. Local wisdom has that the only way to eat wild asparagus is fried in lots of olive oil and then added to an omelet. We disagree, wild asparagus is delicious served up however you would [...]
March is definitely a month of waiting… Our ‘coldframe’ is some old box/drawer thing salvaged from the tip and topped with some appropriately sized and similarly salvaged window panes. It is looking decidedly not green at the moment. There are chillies, peppers, cherry tomatoes, flowers (of the nameless variety collected on a trip back to [...]
