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 […]
This week on Instagram I’m doing a virtual holiday where each day I’m sharing a memory of the time I’ve been lucky enough to spend in the Loire region of France over the years accompanied by a suggestion or prompt that people can use to join in. I’ve been thinking recently about how the current […]
Growing our own potatoes has been another first for us this year. We started early in the season “chitting” our seed potatoes on windowsills in our flat until they were growing little knobbly bits and ready to plant out at the first opportunity. We waited with bated breath as I worried that perhaps I’d jumped […]
The humble gooseberry, or “goosegog” as it is sometimes affectionately called, is one of the first fruits to appear in spring, it’s rarely finding its way onto our tables for some reason. Gooseberries lack the sweetness of strawberries and raspberries and have a face-puckering tartness that likely is the root of their dwindling popularity, but […]
This has been our first year growing a lot of things, including broad beans. The fact that they are hardy plants that can be sown directly in the ground fairly early in the year while the weather is still cold makes them an attractive allotment staple now for us. They were also one of the […]