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Sorrel and lentil soup

8 August 2021

This is a simple recipe, and a nice light soup for a windy and wet summers day. Serves 4 25g butter 5-6 garlic cloves 2 medium carrots, peeled and sliced 150g red lentils 1 litre vegetable stock 200g sorrel, coarse …

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Categories Forest Garden, Hardy Perennial, Perennial Edibles, Perennial Vegetables, Recipes, Sorrel, Uncategorized, Vegetarian

Crop rotations: the basics for urban growers

16 May 202112 March 2020

My kitchen garden and forest garden border now. The raised beds currently have garlic, broad beans and corn salad. Now it’s warming up, I can start more seed sowing and really get the season going.   When I published my …

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Categories crop rotation, Forest Garden, Kitchen garden, Solarpunk

Forest garden border: reviewing the first season

10 September 20205 January 2020

The L-shaped forest garden border along the south (left) and west (right) facing fences, in July, prior to the new kitchen garden beds being created in front. My forest garden border was first planted out in March this year, and …

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Categories Apples, Blueberries, Comfrey, Damson, Forest Garden, Fruit trees, Gardening with ME, Sorrel

Autumn: Cornus ‘Norman Hadden’

10 September 202014 November 2019

My friend Kate, and I, took a stroll/roll* around Sheffield Botanical Gardens the other day. As always, there was something interesting to find in the gardens. This time, it was this ‘shrub’, Cornus ‘Norman Hadden’. As you can probably tell, …

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Categories Autumn, Forest Garden, Sheffield Botanical Gardens, Shrubs, Stroll/roll, Trees

Apple trees for the Forest Garden Border

10 September 20206 October 2019

Back in March I wrote about the design for my Forest Garden Border, and mentioned that I would purchase these in the Autumn. I’ve previously purchased fruit trees from R.V. Roger Nurseries in North Yorkshire and have always been very …

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Categories Apples, Forest Garden, Fruit

Tips to help you choose the right apple tree(s)

16 May 202130 September 2019

Malus domestica ‘Charles Ross’ In the last couple of weeks I’ve been carefully researching what apple trees that I want to plant in my Forest Garden Border. One thing I found was that it was hard to find all the …

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Categories Apples, Forest Garden, Fruit trees

New veg beds – aka finally making a decision on the final layout of my kitchen garden

10 September 202017 July 2019

The kitchen garden? Not an inspiring photograph, is it? I mean, yes, you can see my slowly developing Forest Garden Border around the edges (the blueberries are nearly ready!), and some raised beds with garlic. But the lawn dominates. However, …

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Categories Forest Garden, Kitchen garden, Permaculture, Vegetable beds, Vegetables

Daily Perennials: 22nd to 28th April 2019

10 September 202028 April 2019

Daily perennials this week.Monday 22nd April – Fragaria x ananassa ‘Samba’It might not look like it, but this is a strawberry flower! This has smaller fruit than the typical strawberry, however, it also flowers and fruits for a much longer …

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Categories Bulbs, Daily Perennial, Forest Garden, Hardy Perennial, Perennial, Perennial Edibles, Spring

Creating a mini forest garden border

8 August 20211 March 2019

For some years I’ve been enamoured of the idea to create a forest garden, an edible and fairly low maintenance way to grow food. It’s only with this garden that I realised that I had the right conditions to finally …

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Categories back garden, Forest Garden, Gardening with ME, Perennial Edibles, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Urban Gardens

First day of the month in the front garden: January 2012

16 May 20211 January 2012

For 2012 I am going to blog about my front garden on the 1st day of each month. I’ll follow how it changes over the year, how much food I can produce from the space, and how my development plans …

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Categories Forest Garden, front garden, Permaculture
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