Apr 23 2010

Green Fingers

As I’m not chucking my ring up every hour or so this year, I started off sowing seeds a few weeks ago. I’ve got tomatoes, courgette (zucchini) and peppers planted, although made the mistake of putting the pepper seeds direct into a trough outside, and now we’ve had some cold nights so might have to … read more »

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Aug 19 2008

What up, my homies! (Or Something…)

Hi-dee-ho! :) No thanks to the 150 or so spam messages in my inbox, here I am, online at last. Apparently I pissed someone off enough for them to want to sign my e-mail address up to 100+ newsletters. I’m guessing they didn’t count on the fact that in 3 clicks, I could run a … read more »

Jul 07 2008

Deliciousness!

I just harvested my first home-grown courgette :9

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Jun 24 2008

Veg Box Scheme and Growing My Own

I have quite a lot to say about my experiments with food and gardening of late but I’m a little concerned about scaring off the majority of you who’re here to read the geeky bits. As I don’t have the time to start and maintain a separate blog it’s a case of “tough titty”: you … read more »

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Jun 01 2008

My Bathroom Greenhouse

I realised last week that I’d not updated you all since my post from March where I contemplated doing a spot of gardening. Well, t’was not long after that I turned my bathroom into a makeshift greenhouse for a variety of seedlings, etc. I have still got the outside plastic one, but find that if … read more »

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