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Spoonie veg: Broad Beans

4 September 202014 November 2016

Spoonie veg rating: 3 After garlic, I think Broad Beans are my favourite vegetable. Whilst it’s only a short season of cropping broad beans, those (approx) six weeks are just heavenly to me. There is something about freshly picked and …

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Categories Broad Beans, Gardening with ME, Spoonie Veg

Spoonie Veg: garlic

21 October 202016 September 2016

Spoonie veg rating: 1 Garlic, my number one vegetable. I adore garlic and have been growing and saving my own for years. It’s wonderful in the kitchen, complementing so many dishes, and it is also very easy to grow. It’s …

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Categories Gardening with ME, Garlic, Spoonie Veg

Blogging with ME

10 September 2016

Last Monday I was in tears feeling like ME has taken away so much from me and made my life so small. Then two things happened during the week that turned this around and gave me much joy. On Tuesday I …

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Categories Gardening with ME, Spoonie Veg

Container grown Garlic experiment

5 September 2016

Pot of Garlic with three cloves, back in May Back in May I mentioned that I was doing a small experiment with growing garlic in containers. This is a write up of the results of the experiment. A post for …

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Categories Gardening with ME, Garlic, Spoonie Veg

Gardening with ME: harvest time

3 August 202020 August 2016

Harvests include flowers for the house Harvest time. It’s that moment we are all working towards all year, after all that sowing, tending staking and watering. When we finally get to pick the fruits of our labour. I decided last …

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Categories Broad Beans, Courgettes, Gardening with ME, Garlic, Peas, Spoonie Veg

Spoonie Veg: strawberries

3 August 202028 July 2016

My strawberry patch Spoonie Veg rating: 1 Strawberries. Just the word, strawberries, it sounds quintessentially, summer. And they taste so good, whether freshly picked and eaten next to your patch or turned into homemade strawberry ice cream. What’s more, strawberries …

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Categories Gardening with ME, Spoonie Veg, strawberries

Spoonie Veg: Sorrel

3 August 202023 May 2016

Spoonie Veg rating: 1 Ok, my hands are up, I admit this isn’t the most obvious first choice for an individual Spoonie Veg blogpost. Bear with me, and see if I cannot convince you that Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) is one …

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Categories Gardening with ME, MECFS, Perennial Vegetables, Sorrel, Spoonie Veg

Sorrel and Potato Gratin

3 August 202023 May 2016

This recipe is a based on a mix from Alison Tindale and Martha Stewart. I’ve swapped the onions/shallots for garlic (I’m allergic to onions and shallots) and added a cheese topping. I converted the measurements to grams etc, and for Spoonies, …

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Categories MECFS, Perennial Vegetables, Recipes, Sorrel, Spoonie Veg

Spoonie Veg: growing in raised beds and containers

4 September 20207 April 2016

After publishing my introduction to Spoonie Veg post, I received some really interesting and helpful perspectives from readers, both on my blog and in Twitter conversations. One thing that came out of this was that I realised a post on …

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Categories Container growing, Gardening with ME, MECFS, Raised beds, Spoonie Veg, Vegetable beds

Gardening with ME: an introduction to Spoonie Veg

4 September 202017 March 2016

Last October I blogged about facing the fact that I couldn’t continue to garden like I was a normal healthy person. At the time my ME was getting worse, and I had to rethink how I garden. Part of the …

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Categories Gardening with ME, Permaculture, Spoonie Veg
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