Who knew there was a national sausage week? I certainly didn’t but it seems that it is this week which gives me a good reason to show you my sausage, tee hee.

It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago and my lovely Significant Other bought me an excellent hand cranked meat mincer with, and this is the important bit, a sausage making attachment. It is a fine thing and looks quite a bit like this,



Now the first thing to decided was what I was going to make. Perhaps the finest thing thing in al...

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So a quick update on this year experimental crops. My grapes did brilliantly, see

8 bunches of loveliness. Not bad for the first year when the point was to get the plant established. The sweet potatoes remain in the ground as I type, the plant is still growing as it been more than a little warm recently, so I'll keep you informed.

So to the point of this quick posting. As you know I really like free food and again I point you in the direction of, probably, the best book on the subject, Food...

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So Autumn is upon us. Yes, it is warm every so often but essentialist it is Autumn. I have picked apples from my little trees and blackberries from the hedgerows, it is Autumn.

So how was Summer for you? Ours was pretty rubbish plot wise. No spectacular crop failures but it's not been warm enough or sunny enough for those extra little bits. The melon vines died before the fruit was ripe due to the chilly nights and the chillies have done very little. The Sweet potato experiment is still on g...

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So I have finally got round to it, well, to starting doing it anyway. As with most things that involve plants, it's a work in progress.

In my last post on here, which was a while ago, I said that I was going to do some Guerilla Allotmenteering (whilst I fully understand that that is not a word it is fun to say) in some of the tree pits near my house. At the time of (one fingered) typing that post I didn't have any plants to go in it and that is why it has taken so long to make a start ...
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BBC Radio 4 is a great station and one of it's best shows is the Food Programme. This week's broadcastwas particular interesting as it was about a “climate change farm” in Devon. It's owner, Mark Diacono, grows thing that are a bit difficult to grow here in the UK but will probably get easier as we bury our heads in the sand that has suddenly appeared around our ankles as we try and ignore changing climate.

Now, whilst that bit was interesting what I liked was Mark's attitude towards...

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I have had an idea. Usually I don't have them so I want to show off a bit, oh and by the way I am in no way saying that it is a good idea but it is an idea and that is what is important.

So I have been doing a little Guerilla Gardening in a small area near my house as I have mentioned before and it is starting to look really very nice indeed. I have just planted some Aquilegia that will be up soon and my mother gave us one for Easter that looks a bit like this,

lovely isn't it.

There ...

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Oooooh, well that's interesting and intriguing, what is in this plastic bag held down by quite a large stone? It seems to say that I should take one and read it then visit the incredibly long website address they have provided and so I did.

It seems that there is a review going on that hasn't had quite the publicity it should have and, as it is about cutting stuff, I would imagine that it emanates from the Government. It is a local government review about “tackling burdens” on councils a...

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So we were sat on Poundbury Hillfort yesterday (which you can read about, as well as some other things, here) and we were wondering how they calculate when Easter is. One of the reason for this thought was potatoe related. When are you supposed to put potatoes in the ground? On Good Friday I'm lead to believe but that is different every year and is therefore, as a immoveable date in the calender, of no help. If Easter is the most important Christian festival (as most say it is) then why doesn...
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People get very obsessive about compost and the making there of, I am not one of them. However that does not mean that I don't do it, I just don't take it that seriously. You can spend a lot of money on some rather over the top compost bins,

the Onyx Compost Tumbler for instance, reduced from $655 to $327 which is still a lot in proper money or the Aerobin Composter for £259.99,

Doesn't she look happy. I got mine from the council. I would imagine that your council probably runs a similar sch...

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