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Tips for preserving your homegrown harvest

March 19, 2018 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Whether you have an allotment, a small vegetable patch, or a couple of fruit trees in your conservatory, it's great to be able to preserve what you grow.  Preserving what you grow means that you can enjoy nutritious food year-round, and keep your food bill under control. The problem is that it can be hard to find enough time to get everything done while the fruit and vegetables are still fresh enough to work with. All too often, everything ...

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Filed Under: Grow Your Own Tagged With: Crops, Food, Fruit, gardening, Grow Your Own, Harvest, Homegrown, preserving, Top Tips, Vegetables

Mother’s Day gift guide

February 17, 2016 by Catherine 1 Comment

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Welcome to my Mother’s Day gift guide - yes, it’s really not long until Mother’s Day!  Sunday 6th March is fast approaching, so here are some brilliant gift ideas to help you narrow down your search for the perfect present. Whether the mum in question enjoys gardening, getting outdoors, pampering or just a lovely treat, there are lots of great gift suggestions here.  Hopefully I’ve done the hard work for you and given you plenty of inspiration ...

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Filed Under: Family Home Tagged With: Flowers, gardening, Gift Guide, Gifts, Herbs, Homegrown, Mother's Day, Plants, preserving, Tools, Top Tips

Tips and ideas for making the most of your harvest

October 8, 2015 by Catherine 3 Comments

What to plant May squash harvest

If you grow your own food on any level, from a small patch in your garden to a full-on allotment plot, Autumn is very much the season of harvesting. It’s hard to beat freshly-picked produce, but the reality is often that we have more than we can possibly eat.  For us this year the gluts have been courgettes and tomatoes, we’ve been pretty much up to our ears in them! For me, the pleasure in growing our own fruit and vegetables is not only being ...

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Filed Under: Food Tagged With: Autumn, Community, Crops, Food, Fruit, gardening, Harvest, Homegrown, preserving, Top Tips, Vegetables

Ideas for preserving herbs

September 28, 2015 by Catherine 4 Comments

There’s a bit of a theme going on around here at the moment - harvest.  At this time of year a lot of my ‘gardening time’ is spent picking produce and working out how to store it, cook it or preserve it.  It can be time-consuming in the short term, but it’s so great to be able to enjoy your homegrown fruit and veg all year round. In this post I’m going to share some ideas for preserving herbs  - they make such a difference to recipes and you ...

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Filed Under: Food Tagged With: Autumn, cooking, Food, Harvest, Herbs, Homegrown, preserving, Top Tips

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