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I'm greedy and I like gardening. This is a seasonal food diary of my potager garden: what I grow and how I cook the things I grow.
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- Alys Fowler
- Aquadulce Claudia
- box hedging
- broad bean risotto
- broad beans
- bulghar wheat
- carrot
- coir pellets
- courgette
- courgette flowers
- courgette recipes
- courgettes
- crown prince squash
- crudites
- cucumber
- Desert Mint
- design
- feta
- food
- freezing broad beans
- garden design
- Giant Couscous
- glut
- herbs
- indian summer
- Jamie Oliver
- Jekka McVicar
- Jiffy 7
- Joy Larkcom
- Kentish Cobnut Oil
- leeks
- legumes
- Little Gem
- Masterpiece Green Longpod
- mezze
- Mint tea
- Monty Don
- Moroccan Mint
- mozzarella
- Nigel Slater
- nitrogen fixing
- onion squash
- parma ham
- pata negra
- pickled cucumber salad
- planting
- potager
- principe borghese
- purple sprouting
- raised beds
- recipe
- Rhizobia
- Rosemary Verey
- san marzano
- Sarah Raven
- Seeds of Italy
- soup
- spring onion
- squash
- sugar snap peas
- summer lunches
- sunflowers
- sustainable gardening
- sweet peas
- Tashkent Mint
- The Sutton
- Thompson & Morgan
- uchiki kuri
- uchiki kuri squash
- Unwins
- urban gardens
- vegetables
- vertical planting
- Very easy
- zucchini recipes
Category Archives: mint
Quest for the perfect Mint Tea
I drink much too much coffee, very strong coffee and for the last two weeks I’ve been trying to cut down. I went cold turkey for a week, and its astonishing how hard it is to fill the working … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, herbs, mint, vegan recipes
Tagged best mint tea, Desert Mint, Jekka McVicar, Mint tea, Moroccan Mint, Tashkent Mint
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Gluts and Gluttony
Every vegetable gardener or allotment owner knows about gluts. In spite of your best attempts to plant successionally and sensibly, sometimes you just can’t avoid having a shed load of the same vegetable ready for eating at the same time. … Continue reading
Posted in broad beans, frugal food, lettuce, mint, seasonal food, summer recipes, vegetarian recipes
Tagged glut, soup
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Sugar snap, bean and feta salad
When I got home from work I was feeling too bone idle to walk to the supermarket, which is pretty lazy considering that it takes me less than 30 seconds to get from my back gate to the supermarket entrance. … Continue reading
Broad bean hummous
I’m feeling a bit wistful as the broad beans are nearly over for the year. They’ve been the roaring success of my nascent potager and they’ve had a good innings. I planted three batches in succession in one … Continue reading
Stuffed Courgette flowers
I’ve grown courgettes before but never tried eating the flowers. I’d always thought it looked like a bit of a faff, but with the children away on holiday with their father, and a a less packed work schedule than usual … Continue reading
Posted in basil, courgette flowers, herbs, mint, parsley, seasonal food, summer recipes, vegetarian recipes
Tagged courgette flowers, courgettes, food, recipe
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