NomeGrown

March has been a busy month for many reasons, and I've been way behind with seed-sowing for the new season, but in the last week I'v...

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

Just a few quick pictures taken this morning of bees enjoying my sage flowers. They looooves them sage flowers. Good to ...

I've been pretty busy these last two weeks and neglecting my poor blog again, but with June (and some sunshine!) here now it's got t...

Sowing peas is always a silly game here - the mice come and dig them up overnight and I have to resow. Sometimes it's a wonder I manage ...

Remember my perennial kale, that drooped in the snowy weather? Despite lots of care, it didn't get better - the leaves went dry and cris...

The mangetout has served us well but has just about finished now and the plants are drying out and yellowing. We grew two varieties: Golden ...

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

Our golden mangetout pods are developing super-fast. And don't the plants look fab? There's a stirfry on the horizon...

I was gratified this morning to see the first mangetout flowers ready to open... ...and the first tomatoes starting to form! Exciting!

I took advantage of a couple of free days last week to get lots of things sorted in the garden. I planted out the tomatoes and peppers and g...