With many of our gardens showing signs of spring, lots of us will be keen to get outside and begin clearing our borders and pruning back those wayward shrubs.Continue reading
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Strawberries in October
Well it’s the 13th October and I have eaten several of our home-grown strawberries today!Continue reading
Sweetcorn Rescue
After carefully nurturing the sweetcorn in pots, until I had cleared the first bed of potatoes, I finally got to plant out the sweetcorn this weekend.
First Strawberry of the Season
Always look forward to the first strawberries of the season and today I picked this beauty!
Heathers
Every year I am bewildered when I see garden centres and supermarkets selling ‘painted’ heathers in a variety of garish colours.
Dorset Apple Cake
Dorset Apple Cake (sometimes known as Somerset Apple Cake) is delicious served warm. Although this recipe calls for cooking apples, but I find it a great way to use up any type of windfall apples.Continue reading
Apple Dessert Cake
This is a delicious Mary Berry recipe, which I recently discovered. You can make with any type of apples, including windfalls.
Bee Hotel
Who needs to buy a bee hotel? This leafcutter bee was busy making a nest inside a recessed screw hole in my hosepipe reel.
First Crop of New Potatoes This Year
I dug up a root of the Sharpes Express potatoes I had previously planted 12 weeks ago and was very disappointed with the results, as they were so tiny.
The potatoes from the first root were very small
I guess this is down to the colder-than-normal-weather we have had this Spring.
However, I did cook them and they tasted delicious.
Hopefully another week or two and they should be a reasonable size.
Removing Weeds From a Lawn
It’s still too early to add a general weed and feed to the lawn, you need to wait until April when it is a bit warmer and the grass is actively growing. However, it is a good idea to tackle any weeds with a spot weed killer, or dig them out, before they go to seed and make more work for you later.