Cash and Carrots

Read on for my thoughts about growing your own and saving money! Bit of nature and environmental stuff too! Now with a list of local markets in the Links section!

Sunday, 31 July 2011

allotment report

Pea season in full swing after not getting off to a very quick start with the dryness in April. Most peas free from maggots thanks to an org...

bacon and eggs

Today the kids wanted me to build a fire and cook something! Now, I have never been very good at building fires, more especially getting the...

summer pruning

Now I don't know about you, but I find pruning just a wee bit complicated! I mean, what does a basal cluster look like! (I do know now, ...

Friday, 22 July 2011

Food for Free

Just re-reading Richard Mabey's well known Food For Free book, of which I have got the Collins gem pocket edition - just handy for putti...

Saturday, 16 July 2011

waste not...

Just a few tips on how things can be re-used: 1. Yoghurt pots - for seedlings, particularly beans - the best ones are such as the Ski or l...

John Seymour and self sufficiency

This is the updated version to an earlier book from a pioneer of the whole self-sufficiency movement. John Seymour practises what he preac...

first potatoes this year

We have our first potatoes this year, red ones - I think they were Duke of York. Now, I know they are supposed to be new potatoes but everyo...

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