Thanks, Mo. Mostly I fumble along best I can manage, and sometimes it works! Started my first tray of pea shoots, which is starting to sprout up nicely. It was a bit of a challenge to keep my cat out of napping in it, but I got the tray covered and it's good to go. The rhubarb has sprouted and I'm s...

'Don't you dare stave off gardening until we move. If I do a Luton van run with the floor covered in plants and seedlings and trees, then so be it.' And this is why I love the OH..doesn't know a thing about gardening, but knows how important it is to me personally, and therefore will do everything h...

Nicely done! I've made bread for a while now but had to stop as my hands could no longer cope with it. Bread maker - I could never get it to work right. Now I have a mixer and I love it. I stopped baking anything at all for ages as I just couldn't work the dough. The kneading hook saves me a step! I...

Got da Henz under cover since December. They weren't impressed at first, but they'd be even less impressed if they were culled. It won't kill them, so under they stay, with a tarp over the top. I'm going to move where I've been feeding the wild birds as well as their feed station is still out back. ...

Fingers crossed, I think I've found someone who will take Da Henz! I'll see how it goes.

Cats gonna cat. Forreal. It's just how they cat. My boys have a mad half hour in the morning, or I call it 'trippin' b*lls*. Like Thing 1 and Thing 2, they run up! They run down! They run here! They run there! And then they lick themselves like 'totally meant to do that' and walk off like nothing ha...

Image from Pinterest - it really IS that colour inside. https://usercontent2.hubstatic.com/12978247_f1024.jpg Today I opened up my prized Musquee du Province squash - the only one I managed to grow last year thanks to a freak frost in mid-May that killed nearly everything I planted outside (Farewell...

The girls are in their third year, heading into their fourth. I honestly was surprised they were laying at all this year but I still got a consistent amount of eggs, even though I lost one of my girls this summer (fair enough considering their age). Honestly, my Henz are weird Henz - I have a feelin...

Right, I had best buck up and get this done, even though it wounds my heart full sore....I have three elderly chickens (known as Da Henz) who I need to rehome due to my progressive health issues and moving house. The girls don't lay much anymore (though they often surprise me!) and one might get an ...

Forgive the late post, but I do a lot of curing meat; bacon, ham hock, smoked chicken, and pork shoulder for pulled pork, so I do a variation of brining, smoking, BBQing etc. I want to try doing some cold-smoking in the future but I need a bit of a different set up. It's really tasty stuff, provided...

I've got a Stella as well. I'd like a black cherry but it will have to wait till next year. I never net the fruit - I have 'sacrificial' fruit nearby: honeyberry (most misnamed of berries, it's bitter as), some currants, and a few raspberry canes planted in strategic places, as well as plenty of bir...

My trees are all on dwarf stocks, and a few are minarettes, as it's only been my son and I, The tubs control the root spread, which also helps to control size. I simply cannot be worrying about copious windfalls unfortunately - the trees next door never get eaten, always dropping all their fruit and...

I've been growing fruit and veg for years in a mostly 'mobile garden' - pots, trugs, tubs, troughs, anything I could put soil in and then move. I've spent a lot of my life on the move and so I have never entirely trusted to putting roots down anywhere, either figuratively or literally. I did a bit o...