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Dividing or splitting plants (perennial herbs)

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Sharing is caring, right? Well did you know that you can split some plants into multiple pieces and hey you’ve got extra free plants to use or share with people to show them you care? Now, this might sound scary but it’s actually really easy and we did it this […]

Gardening

Stop leggy basil plants

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It’s brilliant having fresh herbs when you are cooking (or making a wee cocktail), so obviously we want to make that brilliantness last as long as possible 🙂 That’s where some clever “pruning” and some propagation come in. Whether you’re growing herbs along with me or you have bought some […]

Gardening

How to keep shop-bought herbs alive

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I refer to the herb plants from our supermarkets as a gateway drug, because let’s be honest, for an awful lot of people, it’s the first baby steps they make towards gardening. Fresh herbs for cooking is one of the grow your own adventures most of us go on, and […]

Focaccia
Food & Drink, Recipe, Savoury

Focaccia bread with rosemary

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Every so often now I catch myself making a comment about just about any yeast-based dough recipes and saying, “ach I can do that”. I say catch myself because as regular readers here will know, there was a time when making bread seemed like some sort of magical, dark art to me. […]

Bowl of pesto
Food & Drink, Recipe, Savoury

Garden glut – we made fresh pesto

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Everyone has one of those lists that they want to tick off, you know the ones I mean, the ones where you list all the things you want to do before you’re 30, 40, 50 etc.  So when the garden gave me a massive glut of basil, it was a […]