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!

Monday, 13 August 2018

Blackberries and Blueberries

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'Tis the season to get scratched arms and hands! I have picked at least 6 of these tubs of blackberries so far ad there are still ma...

Friday, 29 June 2018

Allotment report 28/6/18

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It is hot! And dry! The allotment needs watering with a hosepipe every two days and some things in containers every day. This is the pe...

Sunday, 24 June 2018

6-Spot Burnet Moths - the importance of Wildflowers

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On her cycle ride yesterday my wife found a huge number of 6 Spot Burnet Moths on a wildflower patch just opposite the Yorkshire Wildlife T...

Sunday, 4 February 2018

Signs of life in the allotment!

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Popped up to the allotment for a bit of a tidy up this afternoon, as - for a change - nice weather coincided with me not having to work or ...

Sunday, 14 January 2018

Bit of an onion theme going on...

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Today has been a bit of an onion day both in an allotment sense and in a culinary sense. Firstly a trip to the allotment to see how the...

Friday, 5 January 2018

Has Michael Gove had a "Road to Damascus" moment?

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There's been plenty of coverage on the news about Michael Gove's speech to the Oxford Farming Conference and his visit to the Oxfo...

Wednesday, 3 January 2018

Parsnip wine

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Just before Christmas I got around to bottling some parsnip wine that had been quietly maturing in a demijohn in one of the bedrooms (th...

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