Home Grown Salad
Thursday, 17 June 2021
Home Grown Salad – all grown in the garden and greenhouse over the last 4-8 weeks.
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Pickled Jalapeños
Monday, 21 September 2020
First time pickling so no idea how these will turn out over the coming days! They should last a couple of months in the fridge but I’ll get through these in a week or two. Some people add sugar to their mix. The heat will change the colour to a more olive colour. Cover all
Window sill growing: Chillies – batch 3
Friday, 15 May 2020
Three types of chillies this time, I’m pretty sure they are: Scorpion, Green and Red Birdseye. A serious tip first, and one I usually do but didn’t have any – WEAR RUBBER GLOVES. Luckily I didn’t get chilli juice in my eyes but I did get it in my beard and on my nose and
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Window sill growing: Chillies – batch 2
Monday, 11 May 2020
So the lockdown boredom experiments continue! This batch of chillies I decided to germinate using the wet paper towel method – place the seeds between two sheets of wet paper towels, put in a little plastic box and leave on the window sill. Some methods put the paper towel in a plastic bag and in
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Window sill growing: Chilli
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Seeds! I should probably wait until I have my first batch of chillies before blogging about them, but the COVID-19 lockdown (I hope you are all doing well during this time) is on, don’t have any work on, I’ve done everything that needs doing in the garden and house so I’m bored (don’t do xbox),
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Window sill growing: Kale
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
The last batches of Kale I did I moved outside once they got to a couple of inches high. This batch I’m going to keep inside at the window for the “Window sill growing” project. I only put the seeds in the soil on the 24th April, today is the 27th and half them have
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Garden Overhaul
Monday, 27 April 2020
So the side of the garden doesn’t get much use, even the grass was a bit out of hand, all thats around there is my shed, but its a nice little sun trap from early afternoon until late in to the evening so I wanted to do something nice with it. So I got some
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