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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
Tag Archives: Nigel Slater
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
The demolition team moves in
After a lot of wasted graph paper I decided to go for a simple design for the garden. I set aside the central section of the garden 13m long for the vegetables, the bottom of the garden will have … Continue reading
How it all started
It’s rather big headed to think that anyone much is going to be interested in the ramblings of an enthusiastic but none too expert vegetable gardener and cook, but when I was searching on the net for design inspiration for … Continue reading
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