Celebrating seasonal, homegrown, and wild food
It's been a year of firsts for our allotment as we approach the end of our first full growing season. We've grown so many things for the first time this year including sweetcorn, potatoes, cucumbers, onions, radishes and a variety of different beans. Florence fennel is a wonderful vegetable and one that I didn't have [...]
Green tomatoes at this time of year are unlikely to have enough daylight hours to ripen, but that isn't a reason to despair! Green tomatoes are entirely edible and I really enjoy their fresh crunchiness. Every year I make a green tomato chutney using the tomatoes that are left on the plants too late into [...]
A recipe with melon at its centre might seem odd for me to post on a blog all about seasonal, local food, but it is actually possible to grow melons in the UK. I know, it was a surprise to me too and I have to admit it isn't something I have personally tried yet, [...]
The weather in the UK this last few weeks has been typically British: unpredictable and wet. The recent rain has at least meant that we haven't had to do as much watering of our allotment (although we still have to water in the polytunnel), but the flip-flopping between hot, dry spells, and muggy, wet weather [...]
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