Feature Articles
Vegan Veg: It’s a home grown Christmas at Stream Cottage
4 November 2010
Lonnie and Richard can proudly claim all their festive fare has been grown on their plot or harvested from the hedgerows.
Undercover: December 2010
4 November 2010.
Take advantage of the lull in sowing, planting and weeding to make the most of the winter harvest and start thinking about the year ahead.
Vegan Veg - Recipe: Nut roast
4 November 2010.
In the kitchen with Richard - With the home grown oil sorted, I was therefore able to pick up the gauntlet, that Lonnie had thrown down in the summer, for making an all home-grown vegan roast dinner though I do have to confess to having looked longingly at some of those store cupboard staples, Marmite, soy sauce and tabasco for example, as I made the nut roast. The result, however, turned out to be the most moist and enjoyable nut roast I’d ever made.
Jobs for the month: December 2010
4 November 2010.
As another year closes, so a new growing season dawns and there is still plenty of work to be done before the ground can be resown in the spring. The chances are however that you will have to work around the weather.
Back to basics: Potatoes
4 November 2010.
Potatoes have long been the nation’s favourite vegetable, whether boiled, roasted, chipped or baked. This month Joe Maiden explains how to grow bumper crops and offers his list of the best varieties to try.
Digging Deeper: Compost crisis
1 October 2010.
When well-known gardening pundits start proclaiming just how ‘awful’ it is that children should get their hands dirty when using ‘filthy’ potting compost, you know that something’s going seriously wrong in the world of compost manufacturing.
Vegan Veg: Foraged treasures
1 October 2010.
The homegrown harvest may be safely gathered, but Lonnie and Richard Morris won’t be resting until the local hedgerows and woods have been explored.
Undercover: November 2010
1 October 2010.
With Sue Stickland - Winter may have started in the garden, but undercover you can still harvest a whole range of crops, and it’s not too late for some sowing and planting. Take advantage of any mild days to prepare for the colder months ahead.
Vegan Veg - Recipe: Richard's leek and potato acorn tart
1 October 2010.
Acorn flour takes effort to make but is delicious and once done you can make one of Richard's tasty tarts.
Jobs for the month: November 2010
1 October 2010.
Cold weather and shorter days are never welcomed but for many of our hardier crops, particularly apples and pears it is essential if they are to fruit well next year. So wrap up warm and continue with the big clean up on your plot or sow the last of the early veg for 2011.
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