In the years that my quince has fruited I have picked them just for the perfume, and left them in a fruit bowl for weeks. No fruit this year; it...
I'm seeing masses of acorns, conkers and hazelnuts. I've even taken a crop of hazelnuts from my garden as the squirrels didn't manage to eat them...
It's very much an old wives' tale - people always say that if there's a lot of berries in the autumn it means a hard winter. But I'm pretty sure...
Why would it it be a disaster? All the ingredients are measured in cups, so the proportions would be the same no matter what size cup you use. The...
But what would be your excuse for carrying the paint in the first place? You could be accused of going equipped to commit an act of graffiti!
I had the opposite experience with my chillies. I chopped up a few for the freezer, washed my hands, then did the washing up so hands in water for...
A cup is a volume though - a cup of flour, a cup of sugar and a cup of chopped apples would all have a different weight. It's a bad idea to mix...
There was a little newsagents a short distance from my school in the 70s/80s and the kids all used to stop off there on the way home. The owner...
Use a measuring cup - you can get a set of them from the supermarket. They will work fine for all US recipes that deal in cups.
That's been the case in some city centres for years. I can remember seeing it in London and I haven't been there since before they built the...
They are kind of like a cross between a courgette and a butternut. Less watery than a courgette and they work very well in ratatouille. The seeds...
The final tromboncino of the year.[ATTACH]
I made this cake recipe a couple of weeks ago: Vegan chocolate courgette cake - Lazy Cat KitchenIt was amazing! The only thing I changed was to...
You can however send a whole vanful of coppers to the house of someone who said hurty words on the internet.
Some years a lot of supermarket potatoes have this too.
Echinacea and eryngium. It looks like the slugs have made a start on the echinacea, having polished off the zinnias. [ATTACH]Eryngium....
I have just picked my final tromboncino for the year; it measured in at 93cm long. The plants are covered in jolly male flowers, but the female...
Agree; when you have a garden like mine that's overrun with small teasel, dock, cleavers, ragwort etc, Herb Robert does not feel like much of a...
I stuck a leftover Defender courgette into a rather too small pot this year and it produced very well, in fact there are still two courgettes on...
Veranda Red is supposed to be. I can't remember if mine got it last year or not - I know the Outdoor Girl ones did. No blight on any of mine yet...
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