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Winter Harvest

It is 28 January (2013) and there are still a few small fingers of ice on the lawn, the remnants of the frozen carpet that had been in place for nine days.  The photo below was taken some time during… more →

Anni's perennial veggies

A Mess of Creasy Greens

Thea Summer Deer wrote 4 weeks ago: Last year spring blasted us early and fast. The ephemerals were here and gone in a flash like the wa … more →

Tags: edible weeds, liver, mustard greens, spring, Creecy Greens

Winter Harvest — 4 comments

annisveggies wrote 3 months ago: It is 28 January (2013) and there are still a few small fingers of ice on the lawn, the remnants of … more →

Tags: Forest Gardening, Perennial Vegetables, permaculture, polycultures, roots and tubers, perennial greens, telford garden, OCA, Jerusalem artichoke

Growing watercress in raised beds

Primrose wrote 1 year ago: Raised beds are the ideal way to grow one of my favourite crops.  I just love watercress and, as som … more →

Tags: gardening, gardening, Watercress, Alan Titchmarsh, wisley, mcindoe, bevan, edible

Food from the Sky — 16 comments

outofmyshed wrote 1 year ago: This week I climbed up to the roof of Thornton’s Budgens supermarket in Crouch End, N.London, … more →

Tags: Gardens to Visit, HOW TO?, Vegetables, Allotment, Courses, Tomatoes, Simple but briiiant, Lettuces, community growing

Collecting as much food as I can from the garden (2) — 4 comments

annisveggies wrote 1 year ago: Since resolving to maximise the food output of the garden (within the limits of the space currently … more →

Tags: Forest Gardening, Perennial Vegetables, permaculture, polycultures, roots and tubers, perennial greens, telford garden, OCA, three cornered leek

Collecting as much food as I can from the garden — 4 comments

annisveggies wrote 1 year ago: I now have a good selection of perennial vegetables growing happily and healthily in polycultures. W … more →

Tags: Forest Gardening, Perennial Vegetables, permaculture, polycultures, perennial greens, lambs lettuce, Kale, salad rocket, Productivity

Where are the frosts? — 3 comments

annisveggies wrote 1 year ago: We are having spectacular sunny autumn weather.  When I drive home from work the surrounding Shropsh … more →

Tags: Forest Gardening, Perennial Vegetables, permaculture, polycultures, roots and tubers, telford garden, OCA, sorrel, three cornered leek

Spring salads that sow themselves

hands in the soil wrote 2 years ago: American Land Cress Lamb’s lettuce and leeks An abundance of tasty green salad.  Growing outsi … more →

Tags: gardening, salad, lambs lettuce, Self Seeding

Signs of new life in the veggie patch after December's icy grip

annisveggies wrote 2 years ago: After what the weather folk say is the harshest December since records began a hundred years ago it … more →

Tags: Perennial Vegetables, perennial greens, wild beet, wild rocket, wild cabbage, welsh onion, lambs lettuce

Discover Land Cress — 6 comments

Malcolm Dalebö wrote 2 years ago: Land cress, Barbarea verna, is a biennial herb in the family Brassicaceae.  A variega … more →

Land Cress!!!!

Sarah Home Organics wrote 2 years ago: Remember the peppery watercress that you grew on cotton wool all those years ago in school? This wee … more →

Tags: Recipes, vegetarian, summer, fast, Gluten-free, In season now, Eggs, landcress, land Cress recipe

Discover: Land Cress

Malcolm Dalebö wrote 2 years ago: Land cress (Barbarea verna), also known as American cress, bank cress, Belle Isle cress, Bermuda cre … more →

Tags: American Cress, Brassica

Vegetables to Sow in October

Angie wrote 4 years ago: Autumn seedlings Autumn has certainly arrived in Ventnor with a low last night of 4°C, today very st … more →

Tags: Vegetable growing, Chervil, Cress, lambs lettuce, Lettuce, spinach, endive, radish, harrod horticultural

Vegetables to Sow in September — 2 comments

Angie wrote 4 years ago: My mouldy courgettes The list of seeds to sow in September is getting shorter along with the days. R … more →

Tags: Vegetable growing, Potatoes, Chervil, Cress, lambs lettuce, Lettuce, spinach, endive, radish

Growing Lettuce — 7 comments

Angie wrote 4 years ago: As you can see I grow some of my lettuce in a hanging basket which is lined with an old fleece, I li … more →

Tags: Vegetable growing, Growing in containers, Companion planting, Lettuce, Lettuce, Companion plants, Salad Bowl, oak leaf lettuce, growing lettuce

Cress and Potato Soup

Lynn wrote 5 years ago: 2 tablespoons butter 2 or 3 leeks, sliced lengthwise and cleaned, then chopped 3 medium potatoes, pe … more →

Tags: recipe, Foraging, recipe soup, Cress, Watercress

Foraging for Cress

Lynn wrote 5 years ago: Between late winter and early spring each year, I enjoy brisk hikes around the property to forage fo … more →

Tags: recipe, Foraging, Wild Food, Cress, Watercress


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