NomeGrown

While I don't really want this to turn into a food blog, there's nothing like a great recipe to pull me out of blogging apathy and g...

There's no cuisine quite as summery as Spanish food, packed with spice and summer vegetables such as peppers, green beans and tomatoes, ...

I'm finally starting to face up to the fact this is a bad, bad year for growing. Between torrential rain and scorching sun, and thank...

I'm not a vegetarian, and despite my fussiness about the meat I eat, I don't aspire to be one. I believe we humans are meant to eat ...

You may remember we gave winter onions, shallots and garlic a try for the first time this year, planting at the start of November with the h...

I am enduring day eleven of intense sore throat, swollen glands, stiff neck and upper body, exhaustion and misery. Apparently antibiotics wo...

Every potato harvest inevitably comes with a few specimens damaged by sunlight, slugs, the fork that dug them up, or even by couchgrass root...

I feel all springy - what a strange time of year to be bringing seedlings into the world. The seeds I've been sowing last week and the w...

I've had another tentative go at pickling this year; first, sliced beetroots from the allotment, and then some of the more diminutive sp...

Okay, I really should have done this at least a month ago, but I was behind as usual and the weather's still so nice... It can't be ...

We've harvested our onions recently, and they're spread out to dry at home. A disappointing result, as usual, despite the fact I bou...

As promised, we harvested the first of the mangetout yesterday - 'Golden Sweet' yellow-podded mangetout from Real Seeds . I couldn...

Spent a fab afternoon at the plot on Friday, catching up with weeding and planting. I've been a bit nervous about planting my potatoes...