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Quote of the day:
“What wondrous life is this I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.”
~ Andrew Marvell
Forage in October for:
Sweet Chestnuts, Sloes, Dandelion Leaves, Rosehips, Hops, Walnuts, Haws (Hawthorn berries), Wild Strawberries, Cleavers, Burdock Roots, Rowan Berries
Tag Archives: vegetables
Wordless Wednesday – Ocas: An extra root
Posted in The home garden, Vegetables, Wordless
Tagged #Growyourown, #GYO, Gardening, New Zealand yams, Oca tubers, Oxalis tuberosa, Photography, vegetables
18 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – Ah, the forgotten, saved Oca from last year!
Posted in Food, The home garden, Vegetables, Wordless
Tagged #Growyourown, #GYO, Gardening, New Zealand yams, Oca, Oxalis tuberosa, root crop, Tubers, vegetables
6 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – All about my plot
Posted in Food, The home garden, Vegetables, Wordless
Tagged #Growyourown, #GYO, Beans, Gardening, iPhone photography, vegetables
2 Comments
Wonderful Hyde Hall
As a birthday treat we took ourselves off to RHS Hyde Hall last weekend. There’s so much to see and explore in the gardens that I feel myself torn in multiple directions. Steve let’s me run around from area to … Continue reading
Posted in Out and about, Winter
Tagged Dry gardens, Gardening, Gardens, Photography, RHS Hyde Hall, vegetables, Winter Garden
15 Comments
Six on a Saturday – Cosmocracy!
Well, we’ve had a few dribs and drabs of rain recently and it seems to be cheering the plants up no end. The beans are romping up their canes (and not just the runners!), courgettes are swelling in nice quantities … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Six on Saturday, The home garden
Tagged Achocha, Agastache, Daisies, Gardening, Photography, Roses, vegetables
11 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – Day-Glo ‘Greens’
Posted in Food, Vegetables, Wordless
Tagged #Growyourown, #GYO, Gardening, Photography, Rainbow Chard, vegetables, Walled Garden
14 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – Achochas: Echoes of the Incas
Sources: Book – The Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation Seeds – 3 different Achocha varieties are available from The Real Seed Catalogue
Posted in Food, Vegetables, Wordless
Tagged Achocha, Caigua, Cyclanthera pedata, Gardening, Grow-your-own, Harvest, Incas, Photography, Slipper gourd, vegetables
7 Comments
Lost in the plot @RHSHydeHall
Last week we visited Hyde Hall in Essex. Hyde Hall is one of the RHS‘s flagship gardens, but it is in fact a relatively new creation. As recently as 1950 it was just a windswept farm on a bare hilltop. … Continue reading
Posted in Out and about, Vegetables
Tagged #Growyourown, Achocha, Dahlias, Gardening, litchi tomato, Photography, RHS Hyde Hall, vegetables
12 Comments
There’s nothing better …. than new potatoes with mojo verde
With temperatures soaring, the sun shining and evenings long, light and gloriously warm, it feels like we should be away on holiday. Unfortunately that is not happening for a while yet, so the next best thing is to pretend and … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Recipes, Vegetables
Tagged Canary Islands, Food, Green sauce, La Palma, Lady Christl, Mojo Verde, Papas arrugadas, Potatoes, Recipes, Sauces, vegetables, wrinkled potatoes
5 Comments
