What is going on in the kitchen garden this month.
Fingers Crossed – Facing Chemo Again! No-one was more surprised than myself! I’d been gardening madly to get my huge garden (pictured below) tidy enough to open to raise money for the brilliant Marie Curie Cancer Charity. Then one morning I was putting on some sun cream and felt a knobbly lump on my Collar-Bone […]
Kitchen Garden Plans 2017 Our Kitchen Garden Plans 2017 have been seriously interrupted by Storm Doris, now bashing to bits Scotland and the UK. So far, we on the East Yorkshire coast are snow free, but the wind (or rather gales) are causing a bit of havoc everywhere. Rivulets of rain are pounding on our Velux […]
Raised Beds – At Last! Would you believe it? We have three beautiful raised beds in our expanding Kitchen Garden. All filled up with, (from the bottom upwards), bits of brick and stones for drainage, old cardboard boxes opened up from deliveries, our amazing homemade compost, and shop-bought compost mixed with top soil and a […]
Food, Glorious Food: Appetite’s back! Oh how I’ve longed for my appetite to return! Food. glorious food? You just try and be a food blogger when you just don’t fancy any food? Virtually impossible to write about it when even your usual favourite foods make you feel ill! However glorious it is. So this blogger […]
Can’t believe what a day or two of hard work has achieved. In Kitchen Garden – It’s getting closer, you’ll be amazed how quickly we chopped off overhanging branches, dug up scrubby bits and pieces of bushes that had been seeded by the many birds and pigeons that frequent our garden and attacked the vicious thorny […]
Part One was the history of the Sweet Chestnut Tree. Not that old Chestnut …… ? Part Two is all about growing the tree. Important Facts about The Sweet Chestnut Tree: The tree grown in the UK belongs to the genus Castanea It is a member of the Beech family Fagus The official name is […]
Well, no. But a new one? What about a Sweet Chestnut Tree! I’m excited. The dreams of an orchard are about to become a reality! OK – I admit it’s only in a small way at the moment, but you have to start somewhere. We’ve cleared a lot of debris and dead plants away from […]
There’s been a bit of progress in the Kitchen Garden area of our Hornsea garden. I’ve really missed my fabulous Kitchen Garden in Hessle – with it’s raised beds, greenhouse, fun garden sheds etc – but most of all, after having worked at creating then looking after a great Kitchen Garden for five years, and […]
This move of ours to Hornsea has turned out to suit us even more than we thought it would. But one thing I can’t get used to is not buying vegetable plants even though we haven’t yet set up our Kitchen Garden. Now we have sussed out where our marvellous trees put the garden in […]
How I miss the brilliant Kitchen Garden I was lucky to have at our old house. Erik and myself have barely been able to contain our frustration whilst waiting to see how much of our extensive garden was going to be put in the shade by our enormous but beautiful trees. Well, this is […]
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