It speaks for itself.
If you have been following our adventures you will know that we have moved house, leaving an extensive kitchen garden behind, and we are in the process of building a new garden to grow all our favourite fruit and vegetables. This new garden was completely overgrown and has needed a huge amount of hacking and […]
Kitchen Garden Tales … Well, there’s good and there’s bad. Lack of sunshine at this crucial time of year is taking its toll of my poor vegetable plants. And too much rain. This is supposed to be summer in England, but it is more like a damp Monsoon, water-drenched swamp. Our Radishes have been good […]
Garlic Disaster – It’s gone Rusty! But Asparagus Success! Oh, the trials and tribulations of a Kitchen Gardener. Generally it all works out well, but just sometimes …… see for yourselves. 4 years in a row I’ve grown perfect Garlic – but now it’s been attacked, by Garlic Rust. I planted it last Autumn, it […]
Sunshine required in the Kitchen Garden, (in between rain)…… …… for longer than half an hour? This was my plea this weekend in East Yorkshire. The vegetable plants are shooting up in the greenhouse, almost ‘champing at the bit’ (or is it chomping?) to go to their final resting place outside. And I need to […]
A Hint of Summer Food to come …… : Is it just me, or do all Cooks and Kitchen Gardeners get really excited when they see shoots peeking through the soil at this time of year? It thrills me. It’s like getting a Birthday present, and stirs the anticipation of all those lovely summer meals ahead […]
Bad Cold, Vegetable Seed Catalogues & A Cosy Kitchen – What else could I do? My rotten cold and cough had lasted nearly a week, I was not fit to go outside and ‘potter’ in the Kitchen Garden, but realised that I could sit in my cosy kitchen and happily trawl through the myriad of […]
How can books help your vegetables grow? I’m a glutton for information, but … oh well, hear the confessions of a Kitchen Gardener. Maybe it’s that I don’t have enough confidence sometimes, and want some expert to put me straight on how to do things correctly. Let’s face it, when you take a seed packet, […]
At Last I’ve Planted the Garlic! I’ve been meaning to do it, waiting for a nice day, and yes, at last I’ve planted the Garlic. In between helping Erik cut and store our logs for the wood-burner, I enjoyed the sunshine this weekend, and spent some time tidying up the Kitchen Garden. But my Garlic […]
The Kitchen Garden Bounty never ends – there is always something to pick, to wash, to chop, to cook and then … to eat. Our tomatoes are still ripening, and last week I thought ‘Time for Roasted Tomato and Garlic Soup’ for lunch and the freezer. We have to use them all up, some way […]
Recipe: The Richness of Raspberry Vinegar The richness of Raspberry Vinegar is as strong and sensual as its colour, and it has a myriad of amazing uses when partnered with food. Whilst Astrid has been working her wonders with our bounty of Apples, I have been researching the alchemy of Raspberries and wondering what to […]
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