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Monthly Archives: May 2020
Agar flakes
I’ve had another first experience today. Earlier in the year, I made rhubarb jelly out of juice left over from stewing a few stalks. This was a success which I wanted to repeat – but since lockdown I’ve not been … Continue reading
Posted in Days out, In the kitchen
Tagged Agar flakes, elderflower, jelly, roses, Turkish Delight
6 Comments
Bolting onions
My curiosity has been piqued by a bolting onion near the pond. I’m not sure I ever planted an onion set in this place, so I’m baffled as to how it ended up here. Perhaps it ended up by the … Continue reading
An elaborate bird table
This morning, I noticed that the birds had been fussing with the straw over the beans I’d sown yesterday. I wasn’t sure if they were after the one or the other, but as we were off out I kicked the … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Permaculture, Social, Wildlife
Tagged mulching, runner beans, tomatoes, Water Haigh Woodland Park
7 Comments
A new way of sowing beans
Way back at the beginning of lockdown, I was alerted to the fact that the Permaculture film ‘Inhabit’ was free to view at the moment. As I’m not great at watching things, I’d not got round to watching it till … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Permaculture, soil management
Tagged Inhabit, Masanobu Fukuoka, no-dig, runner beans
20 Comments
Yorkshire Post to the rescue
Over the weekend, I did some work for Zero Waste Leeds. They had asked if I could make a video of my composting system – and upon hearing that I wrote a blog, they asked if I could do a … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Good for the environment, Social, soil management
Tagged fruit flies, Green Johanna, lockdown, Zero Waste Leeds
7 Comments
Tadcaster
Last week, the car battery needed topping up again, so to get 45 minutes continuous motoring in we drove to Tadcaster. Once upon a time, between teaching jobs, I’d done a spot of nannying for the nephews of Bear Grylls … Continue reading
Didn’t expect more purple
Usually, I kill sage before it has chance to flower. This year is different. As I had never seen sage flowers before, I had not known what to expect and was totally charmed when the buds burst yesterday. With purple … Continue reading
A new skyline
As long as I’ve lived in my house, I have muttered with dismay as the leylandii in neighbouring gardens get taller and taller and thus block more and more of the sun from my south-facing garden. Then this week, a … Continue reading