French Bean ‘Ice Crystal’
I love French beans, both climing and dwarf. One of the varieties I picked up when I attended Patrick of Bifurcated Carrots seed saving event last October, was ‘Ice Crystal’. This was given to me by Dr Simon Platten who …
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
I love French beans, both climing and dwarf. One of the varieties I picked up when I attended Patrick of Bifurcated Carrots seed saving event last October, was ‘Ice Crystal’. This was given to me by Dr Simon Platten who …
My first attempt at Butterfly cakes: They tasted great too!
No, not the Split Enz song.* The lack of blogging is due to not just being too busy with two jobs, but also because the last couple of weeks have seen me in the wars. I, a) put out my …
It’s not often that West Papua gets on the news. Rich in resources and a highly biodiverse environment, but controlled with brutal violence by Indonesia (largely because of those resources), the West Papuan people undergo daily human rights abuses, and …
Kevin and I were in Sheffield on the weekend, at the WDM Campaigner Convention and AGM. It’s also WDM’s 40th year. Yay WDM! The picture is of a celebratory cake made for a recent Oxford WDM group 40th celebration. Made …
As mentioned previously, I’m experimenting with not pinching out the tips of broad beans this year to see if it makes any difference with black fly. So far my experiement is going well. I’ve had some black fly on a …
My favourite flower in the garden at the moment.
It was unbelieveably hot last weekend. Still, the taties just HAD to go in, so Kevin and I slapped on sun factor 50 lotion and silly hats, and went down to the lottie. Mark (co-lottie partner) and Jenny (Mark’s partner) …
I’m very excited because my Damson, Shropshire Prune, not only flowered this year, but has it’s first fruits now growing! I did see lots of bees around the blossoms in April but didn’t really expect to get fruit as the …
Bloody hell, we are going to have a sunny weekend! What’s more, it’s the first and only weekend in ages that Kevin and I are home and no committments, so we can get down to the Lottie. Lottie in the …