Gardening
Dont Kill Your Seedlings: Potting on for Beginners
In this week’s bumper of an episode, you’ll see my amazing acting skills (even if I do say so myself) as I recreate the drama
Eli 6th February 2022
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Fruit
Eat, Sow, Grow: July in our vegetable garden
July is awesome. Not just cause it’s party month (my birthday and our wedding anniversary) but because July is usually the month of abundance in
Eli 18th July 2021
Food & Drink
What to do with a glut of tomatoes… make passata of course
As always with a veg garden, there are times when you have such a glut of produce that you are trying to find ways to
Eli 14th October 2018
Gardening
Growing tomatoes in the cold climate of Scotland. Yup it is possible.
Everything you need to know to grow huge crops of tomatoes, yes even in Scotland
Eli 28th August 2018
Food & Drink
Tomato and red pepper soup
Hygge comfort returnsIt’s that time of year again, it’s cold, blooming freezing, and it’s dark most of the time. It’s really easy during the cold
Eli 6th November 2017
Gardening
Can you go on holiday and not come home to a dead greenhouse? With quadgrow you can.
When I installed my new quadgrow watering system in the greenhouse, one of my questions was, “will I be able to go off on holiday
Eli 2nd August 2016
Food & Drink
Garden gluts – this time it’s tomato relish
We eat a lot of relishes, chutneys and pickles, but it’s not something we’ve ever tried to make so today I decided I’d have a
Eli 30th August 2015
Food & Drink
Beetroot soup – what to do with a glut of beetroot
We mentioned earlier in the blog that we were having to come up with ideas for using up courgettes. Well the problem now is beetroot.
Eli 16th August 2015
Food & Drink
Eating what you sow
This week we thought we’d do you a wee update on the food we get from the garden rather than just lots of pictures of
Eli 29th June 2013
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