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Tag Archives: garden
Summer Sun For The Winter
The Preserve of Preserves With the end of summer and the beginnings of a rapid slide into winter I thought I’d celebrate with a glass of wine! Except that the wine itself is not yet ready! It is a ‘work … Continue reading
Posted in The Kitchen Garden
Tagged autumn, Christmas, fruit, garden, summer, wine, winter
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Make Your Own English Country Wine
A glass of home-made Country wine is a tradition of old English hospitality that stretches back centuries. Forget grapes! Despite being universally accepted as the most reliable fruit for winemaking, grapes do not fare well in England. Therefore the juices … Continue reading
Posted in The Evolution Of . . .
Tagged Christmas, fruit, garden, traditional, vegetables
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Poppy’s Progress
Since her arrival back in March, Poppy has more or less settled in. Her favourite hunting ground is Park Wood, although there are lots of interesting dogs to be found in Jubilee Park too! She has also taken a fancy … Continue reading
A Summer Of Welcome (mostly) Visitors
With the Summer now well on its way out here are a few images from the past season in the garden. What with the bad start with so much rain, it hasn’t been as good a year as it promised … Continue reading
A Rose By Any Other Name . . .
Rose Garden With the Chelsea Flower Show in full swing at the moment Alice and I have spent the best part of today edging and trimming lawns in anticipation of a good barbeque summer. I thought a nice quiet moment with … Continue reading
Rationing Made Tasty!
The Rise of the Humble Vegetable. The constraints of war-time rationing are difficult to comprehend in this day and age where food of all types are freely available, in some of the major stores for twenty-four hours a day! It was … Continue reading
Posted in The Kitchen Garden, Wartime
Tagged beans, carrot, garden, onions, pulses, vegetables
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Garden Diary, May 16th
The garden is flourishing with the fine weather we have had these past few weeks. The early potatoes a pushing through strongly (below) If this warm weather keeps up and with judicious watering I should be digging new potatoes in about eight weeks … Continue reading
Garden Diary, 25th April
With the hot, dry weather of the past week a lot of things in the are beginning to be lulled into a false sense of security that summer has arrived. Even the camera objected to the very bright sunlight … Continue reading
Sammy
Following a mercifully swift illness, Sammy sadly passed away on 23rd February. He was a good and loyal companion to me for many years and in his memory I am posting a few of my favourite images of him. Always a happy … Continue reading
The Kitchen Garden
As a sideline to the main focus of this blog, namely Granny Robertson’s Cookbook, I have in the past four years been growing my own fruit, vegetables and herbs. Therefore a diary of my means, methods, successes and failures would not be … Continue reading
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Tagged fruit, garden, onions, peppers, potatoes, sage, vegetables
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