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, 30 December 2019

In the not so bleak midwinter!

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'Tis the season to eat holly.... well not quite! But the local blackbirds have been coming to the holly bush in the garden and munching ...

Sunday, 1 September 2019

Harvest time

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This year here in the UK it is perhaps more important than usual that those of us who grow our own food aim to preserve and store as much as...

Sunday, 14 April 2019

Tawny Mining Bee!

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The other day in the garden I was stripping off part of the lawn (I say lawn, it is a small patch of grass that has suffered over the years...

Saturday, 13 April 2019

Planting out peas, and our friendly robin(s)

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It is still feeling quite cold out there with possible overnight frost forecast. However, it is time the peas went out into the big wide wor...

Sunday, 3 March 2019

Spring - or is it?

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After last week's record - but unnatural - temperatures, this weekend has seen a return to what should be the case for this time of year...

Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Allotment update

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We are extremely blessed with plenty of home grown vegetables and fruit at the moment. There's been several days when I have come ...

Sunday, 30 September 2018

Cottage pie - with lots of home grown veg

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Still a time of plenty here on the allotment! Today's lunch (and indeed tomorrow's tea and an as yet unspecified future meal!) is co...

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