How about not buying hummus again? Hummus is the typical low value ingredient, high valued add product that supermarket love, and if they throw in a bit of garlic or a few herbs and spices for that 'Mediterranean' flavour, then they add a few more pennies to that too. Here's an easy recipe from the ...

Looks great - we (vegetarians in our house) will certainly give it a try.

Friends will often visit with kids and I always show them the hens. And occassionally, parents in the street will ask if they can show their kids the hens. I am always delighted; it is so hard in the urbanised society to show kids where our food comes from. I guess most kids think eggs and milk just...

My spuds are great. Boiled a few for dinner last night and had enough left over for potato salad tonight. I am not very good at storing vegetables, so have enough to share with our elderly neighbour across the road. She saves all her waste vegetable peelings, etc, for my compost heap, so it is noce ...

How long for hard boiled eggs? I think I always give them too long!

Little Brown Frog Spinach and watercress - two things that are so easy to grow I bought some watercress last week - from the supermarket. It didn't have any shoots with leaves but I put a few in a glass of water and they soon sprouted. Planted them out this weekend - and since then it has never stop...

I like your style Orfy; there is so much we could live without. ⋅ We didn't have a telly till we had kids - then we thought it might be too much for them to grow up without one. Could do away with telly but not the radio! ⋅ Sausages and cheap chicken - not a bother as I am vegeta...

Just catching up with goings on in the lane, and guess what? I have a lovely cup of fresh black leaf made tea for company.

Mind, hopefully off down the pub in an hour or two for a couple of pints of real ale; can't stand this fizzy lager and rubbish they pass off as beer in many pubs

Good luck. Hens are fun to have in back garden. and it is so exciting to get you first eggs It has been a bit wet for the poor things today. You soon learn that hens don't have a lot of what we humans would call common sense. Two of mine sheltered under part of the run that is covered, the others fo...

Done

As an aside, I did think about keeping bees but they look like they need a lot of attention; more so than hens?

Up at 7:00; a bit grey and overcast but not raining.

Managed to clean out and feed the hens, and then dig up a row of potatoes; then the heavens opened

On the positive side, I have some water cress that seems to have rooted well - looks like the right sort of weather for it

I would like a cockerel at some point, but not sure that the neighbours would be too pleased

I didn't know that I have just a few broccoli in (don't know what happened to the rest). Just about ready for harvesting so I will try leaving it in the ground and see what happens.

At home we never use tea bags. To me a decent cup of tea has to be made with proper loose tea. Then again, I drink my tea black, and fairly weak, so in my mind there is no choice but to go for loose tea. Given that even with tea bags, you have to throw them in, stir them and fish them out, I don't s...

Brilliant post Mo. I will certainly check out the varieties you suggest. Also, I like a nice russet, so was thinking of getting one of those. What root stock do you go for? I have quite a bit of space, say in the order of 65ft by 65 ft, I am not sure what to go for. I want trees not cordons, but gue...