Vegetable Garden

December Planting Guide

What a wild week of weather it’s been! We jumped from icy, wintery days on Monday and Tuesday straight into full-blown summer by Thursday. I’m not entirely sure what happened to spring this year—if it showed up at all, I must have blinked and missed it. Despite the chaos, the garden is pressing on. I picked my very first zucchini of the season (always such a satisfying moment!) and the strawberry patch is gifting me a small but steady handful each day. The tomatoes are loaded

November Garden Update

Planting The weather still can’t decide what season we’re in, but I’ve decided not to wait around—I’ve dived straight into this year’s vegetable planting. I’m especially excited because I’ve added two new crops to my garden for the very first time. I’ll be taking you along on the journey as I learn to grow kidney beans for winter preserving and paprika chillies to make my own paprika powder. It’s a spice I use constantly in the kitchen, so growing my own feels good and makes

November Planting Guide

Onion Powder

I had some self sown onions which grew out of season and were ready to harvest now. This was to my advantage as I had just run out of...

October Planting Guide

It is starting to feel like spring, but only just. The soil temperature is starting to rise, we need this to be 10 degrees or above before our plants will start to take off. As my soil temperature is still below this, I have up planted my seedlings from seed trays into small pots to allow them to continue growing in my little hothouse and become a good size before planting out. I planted my zucchini, the first succession planting of my savoy cabbage seedlings and snow peas