Recent Comments
Simran on Recipe: Bread Machine Spiced F… SAM2.0 on Recipe: Bread Machine Spiced F… Lanny on Recipe: Bread Machine Spiced F… lizard100 on Here Comes The Sun(flower… Ema Jones on Red Onion Marmalade
Author Archives: SAM2.0
Small Things
My sister sent me some photos of a couple of hedgehogs she and the kids saw tonight, near their house, and says I can use them here. I have never seen ‘my’ hedgehog early enough to get anything but the … Continue reading
Some things just will not die.
Take the polytunnel tomatoes, for example. They’ll never win prizes, but I admire their tenacity at surviving the year. I’ve decided to turn it into a sauce and, quite literally, bottle it. (There are so few that it’ll be taking the … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment Gardening, Photos
Tagged Allotment, Growing Vegetables, Polytunnel, Sunflowers, Tomato
Leave a comment
I Can Be Bought With Flowers
If I met whomever invented the hand-tied bouquet, or the inventor of the collapsible vase, I’d snog them full on the mouths. Seriously, if you’re as rubbish as I always have been with flowers, whilst simultaneously really liking them, the … Continue reading
Even More Music For Doing Stuff
I am recently re-immersing myself in music, after a break of several months, and since I’m starting to do stuff once more, it’s about time that I updated my anthology, which combines the two. Hozier’s lovely Take Me To Church is a … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Leave a comment
Here Comes The Sun(flower)
I went to the allotment and assisted (held things) while someone who knows about these things taught me how to make a rectangular or square raised bed.* The wooden slats I saved from my old bed have now come together … Continue reading
Using Home-Grown Tomatoes: Roast Tomato Sauce
Having planted 12 tomato plants this year in grow bags and ring culture pots around my garden, I’ve been picking a lot of tomatoes recently. The two main varieties I’ve grown are Gardener’s Delight and Moneymaker. The former provides loads of large … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged Cheap Meals, Growing Vegetables, Pasta Sauce, Roast Tomato Sauce, Simple Cooking, Soups and Stews, Tomato, Vegetables
Leave a comment
Red Onion Marmalade
Last year I made my first ever foray into preserving, with a rather nice caramelised red onion chutney. I say “rather nice”, but at the time (a month after I made it) I wasn’t totally convinced. My daughter and her … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged Cooking, Preserving, Recipes, red onion marmalade recipe, Vegetables
1 Comment
Doing it Properly. (Sort of.)
I managed to get up to the allotment almost every day last week, but have almost entirely failed to take any more pictures because I’m always visiting during the increasingly short bit of daylight between me finishing work and sunset. I’ll try to … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment Gardening
Tagged Allotment, Golden Courgette, Growing Vegetables, Leeks, Pumpkins, Raised Beds, Sunflowers, Tomato
Leave a comment
Things in my Garden, Part 2.
I have continued to pay attention to and appreciate the small things – and the sunflower, which is continuing to grow and throw up new flower heads. Whilst not taking these pictures, I’ve been harvesting tomatoes, which I’ve then roasted … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Photos
Tagged caramelised red onion marmalade, carrots, Garden photography, Gardening, Growing Vegetables, Red Onion, seeds, Sunflowers, Tomato
Leave a comment
The very next day.
Two days in a row – this is a new personal best! Yup, I’ve been back to the allotment and pulled more weeds, tied up some tomatoes and taken some photos of things I spotted. First, having weeded the area … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment Gardening
Tagged Allotment, Golden Courgette, Growing Vegetables, Minibeasts, Polytunnel, Sunflowers, Tomato, Vegetables, wildlife
Leave a comment
SAM 2.0 