Kale – Root to Shoot: leaves, flowers, sprouts and more!

Kale – Root to Shoot: leaves, flowers, sprouts and more!

by | Apr 5, 2019 | Allotment, Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking, Spring, Summer, The Creative Kitchen, Winter

Kale, a nutrient dense vegetable high in vitamins, is well known for its many health benefits. Easy to grow and winter hardy in the UK, it’s a fantastic plant for the hungry home gardener. Kale’s delicious leaves make a tasty addition to all kinds of meals...
November in my No Dig Garden

November in my No Dig Garden

by | Nov 17, 2018 | Allotment, Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, No Dig Gardening, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Preparing The Soil, The Creative Kitchen

It has been a busy time since my last blog post and how the garden has changed! The weather has been typically British, from unseasonably warm to icy cold (for Somerset) and back again. Mornings are misty, deciduous trees almost entirely without leaves now and...
On this harvest moon…

On this harvest moon…

by | Sep 27, 2018 | Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, potions, Preparing The Soil, Preserving, The Creative Kitchen, Winter

This week began with the Autumn Equinox, the festival of Mabon, which starts on September 21st although the actual time of the equinox was Sunday 23rd at around 2am (in the UK). Day and night are of equal length once more, before the nights get longer and the days...
September sowing, sweetcorn harvests and recipes

September sowing, sweetcorn harvests and recipes

by | Sep 14, 2018 | Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking, Summer, The Creative Kitchen

As summer mellows into autumn, the allotment and garden is full of ripening vegetables and fruit. Mornings are much colder now, it’s something of a shock after our much hotter than usual summer: we started picking salad at Homeacres this morning at 6:30 (the day...