[ad#co-1] It’s been brought to my attention that I’ve been a bit lazy of late with supplying pictures of what’s going on. Silly really as I prefer blogs which provide some pictographic content. So from now on I will really try to spend a bit more time making the blog more colourful. And for now [...]
[ad#co-1] As I may have mentioned before I am a dedicated fan of the brussels sprout. Well this year is the first time I’ve grown them and I wasn’t sure how well they’d do as I suppose I tend to think of them as a more northern and particularly British vegetable. Happily I was wrong. [...]
Well, feeling rather weird at the moment as I’m visiting my folks back in South Wales. It’s lovely to be with family and friends but I am having difficulty relaxing my ‘save everything’ habits. It’s the little things I’m really noticing. My folks are lucky having a 1/2 acre garden so do grow some of their [...]
Reading one of stonehead’s musings on the lack of knowledge regarding the natural order and where our food comes from got me reminiscing about our early days in the Catalan countryside. Three seperate incidents made me realise just how far removed we urban types seem from the food chain and how daft Spaniards often think [...]
Well, its all change on the huerto this week. The tomato plants have finally be pulled up and replaced with more broad beans – I don’t think you can ever have too many really. The tomato plants were starting to look pretty bedraggled and as its cooling down on the mountain I don’t imagine there [...]
Brussels Sprouts for Chrimbo! Don’t worry I’m not obsessing about Christmas already. Oh no, I’m obsessing about my sprouts! You have to understand D hates sprouts. As much as I meddle and ‘tart’ them up with chestnuts or bacon, butter or leeks he still absolutely refuses to do anything other than moan about their [...]
Well its been steadily heading towards winter for a while now… The hunters are about, the fire is being lit (evenings only lets not panic just yet!) and the nights drawing in. Never-mind though, have been busy getting ready for the Spring harvest. We’ve been preparing the veg plots – removing weeds (it really does [...]
[ad#banner] All is not completely lost though. D had a brainwave – luckily he doesn’t like to waste a thing so had been mulling over the problem of the sprouting onions and decided to replant them. Mad huh? Let me explain more… The onions are sprouting but are still basically dry and okay so we’re going to [...]
Well I was feeling very smug that last year we were self sufficientish with regard to onions. We did very well eating them from storage for about 9 months and along with the 2 months we ate them (alright sometimes they were a bit small but hey!) from the garden meant we only had to buy [...]
