Posts in category: growing veg
Full moons and runner beans

The first rule of veg growing is that it is impossible not to grow a surplus of runner beans. And they aren’t the most versatile of cooking ingredients. Once you’ve steamed them, or steamed them then sauted with garlic or whatever, you’ve just about exhausted the repetoire. Any better suggestions most welcome – I do […]

Signed off and flaked out.

We picked up our all-important Tatton sign off slip today confirming that we’ve cleared the site and can go home. The paving and walls went to the Levenshume allotment team who arrived in force yesterday with a large van and seemingly limitless energy. Pics and details to follow…. Ged came today to help take the […]

Here we go again

First day of the Tatton Show build today – Isabelle and I are off to check out our site and mark it up ready for the hard landscaping to start tomorrow. We’re all set to go – just need a spell of good weather. We had heavy rain all last night and the forecast for […]