This lentil loaf is something that we have reasonably frequently but only now have I decided to add it to the recipes on this website. The reason for doing this is that it today we made it using sieved juice from home grown tomatoes, rather than bought tomato juice. It seems to have worked well.…… Continue reading Tasty & Healthy Simple Vegetarian Lentil Loaf Recipe
Author: MTT
Tomatoes Ripening Early (2022)
The hot spell we had a few weeks ago seems to have brought everything earlier than other years. This is possibly good or bad. We are about 6kg of tomatoes ahead of what we would have expected to pick by this time in an average year and it seems to be mainly down to the…… Continue reading Tomatoes Ripening Early (2022)
Tomatoes & Carrot Thinnings for Soup
I keep on going on about how to try and deal with the glut of tomatoes, mainly freezing as tomatoes or sauce but this tomato soup recipe has two advantages. Firstly it uses a good quantity of fresh tomatoes and it also uses carrot thinnings to produce an excellent lunch. Regardless of how careful I…… Continue reading Tomatoes & Carrot Thinnings for Soup
Recipe: Simple, Tasty Tomato Sauce
The tomato glut that you get through August and September can’t be dealt with just by eating. On average from our plants we get around 40kg of tomatoes (more if its a good year). There’s a balance to be made between cherry tomatoes which can be eaten with salads and larger tomatoes which are good…… Continue reading Recipe: Simple, Tasty Tomato Sauce
Today’s Harvest (August 2022)
The family have been here for the past week so it’s been difficult to know exactly how things are going. We had a heavy thunderstorm which broke the hot dry weather and, hopefully, will mean that some of the beans and courgettes will set and grow. It doesn’t affect the tomatoes because I have been…… Continue reading Today’s Harvest (August 2022)
Home Vegetable gardening in a Heatwave and Drought
The last few weeks have been hot and dry. The waterbutts emptied a while ago and we’re likely to have a hosepipe ban soon. In the meantime we’re trying to be economical with the water but know that if we don’t water, thing will not crop as well as they could. The potatoes have already…… Continue reading Home Vegetable gardening in a Heatwave and Drought
Flying Ant Day 2022
This year has been a bad year for blackfly, made worse (in our garden at least) by the fact that they are moved around from one plant to another by ants. They started on the broad beans which they forced me to harvest earlier than usual so they were smaller and migrated to the dwarf…… Continue reading Flying Ant Day 2022
First Tomato Harvest 2022
Today I decided that the tomatoes were starting to get ripe enough to warrant picking a few. As usual the cherry tomatoes are the first with Oleron Yellow, Red Berry, Garnet, Koralik Red Cherry & Indigo Cherry Drops making up the majority of fruit by number. However, the weight was mainly from standard red tomatoes…… Continue reading First Tomato Harvest 2022
Effects of Dry Weather
The weather this week has been hot, dry and windy. As a result, whilst the plants in the greenhouses are doing well and the tomatoes are starting to ripen in quantity, all the outside plants are suffering and need copious amounts of water. Even so, the runner beans have lost all their flowers and no…… Continue reading Effects of Dry Weather
Box Tree Moth – a relative newcomer
With the recent hot weather our windows and doors have been open in the evening and so more insects than usual have appeared. I’m not one who can identify insects (my grandfather was the entomologist) but this one looked pretty and I thought I would be able to identify it. Out came the Butterfly and…… Continue reading Box Tree Moth – a relative newcomer