I must admit, the front lawn is my nemesis. When it’s looking good, our front of house is stunning and gets so many complimentary comments from passers-by, but… it is so much work. When we moved to Ar Bruadair all those years ago, there was no lawn at all. It […]
Author: Eli
Potting on your seedlings
Comments are DisabledWe are potting on our tomatoes but this process applies equally to other seedlings, peppers etc. It’s time, our tomato seedlings are starting to look strong and healthy, but I’m very aware that they will soon be too large for the tiny little starter pots I gave them. If we […]
My jade plant adventure continues
Comments are DisabledA few months back I let you all share in my terrifying adventure where I learned I had been killing my jade plants with love. Basically after 10 years, my enormous and seriously full jade plant (the original of the two) had started dropping leaves, leaves had started to wither […]
Hot cross buns: traditions and silliness (oh and a recipe)
Comments are DisabledKate is a big fan of hot cross buns, I, to be honest, don’t really see what’s so fantastic about them. But hey ho, that doesn’t mean I can’t experiment with making some so Kate can have a treat. Just in case you live somewhere in the world where hot […]
Banana bread with a peanut butter twist
Comments are DisabledI’m going to call banana bread a useful cake. Yup, useful cause you know how sometimes you end up with random left over bananas that look less than attractive? You know, the ones that sit lonely in the fruit bowl at the end of the week all brown and yucky? […]
Using propagators to start your seedlings off & how to move them from propagator to greenhouse to outdoors
8 commentsWe have had a few questions in comments and on twitter recently about our set up in the greenhouse and how we use the propagators so I thought it would an excellent opportunity to talk to you a bit more about the process from start to finish. The first thing […]
Compost, how to use it & when to sieve it
2 commentsIf you haven’t been following our adventure with composting over the past few years you won’t know that we started off with the big, standard-type compost pile at the back of the garden (build from odds and ends of wood) and are now using a swanky hotbin composter. So we’ve had […]
Pruning and repotting Jade plants
13 commentsI was given a cutting from a Jade plant about 10 or 11 years ago, it was tiny, maybe a couple of inches tall and I did what most of us do and stuck it on a windowsill and forgot about it. Watered it occasionally, when I remembered. This was […]
Naughty elf on the cocktail shelf – festive greetings from Kate & Eli
Comments are Disabledhttps://youtu.be/Oe7GHbnsBqE Espresso martini for one
A wee tipple to add a glow to your christmas festivities – EGGNOG
Comments are DisabledNow eggnog isn’t something traditional to us, although we did grow up with something similar called a “snowball” using advocat, which is made from brandy, eggs and sugar, so pretty much eggnog. We’ve spent a bit of time researching eggnog and recipes because we were worried about getting things wrong […]
