Learn how to grow your own yoghurt pot cress head with our easy step-by-step guide. Watch your cress grow then snip into an egg mayo sandwich – delicious!
Learn how to grow your own yoghurt pot cress head with our easy step-by-step guide. Watch your cress grow then snip into an egg mayo sandwich – delicious!
It’s super-easy to grow herbs and chillies indoors – no garden required! All you need is a windowsill and a few top tips.
We’re bang in the middle of summer, and Christmas should be the last thing on our minds… unless you’re a gardener! In late July and early August there’s still time to put a few veg in the ground, ready to reap the rewards of a homegrown dinner come Christmas.
Tomatoes are a fantastic ingredient to grow yourself, and you can get great results in small spaces, or indoors. Nothing beats the smell of toms ripening on the vine, and the difference in flavour between a homegrown tomato and a standard shop-bought one is out of this world!
I’m writing this on 29 February, that strange extra day that’s shoehorned into every fourth year to make the calendar year and the earth’s celestial year align with one another.
February often gets a bad rap, but unfairly so, in my opinion. Yes, it’s still winter and yes, it can sometimes be dreary, but prolonged periods of cold are so rare these days that the season is seldom actually as bad as we expect.
There’s always a lot to do in December, but not much time in which to do it before the Christmas holidays begin. Short days and grotty weather don’t help matters.
Every month has much to recommend it, even November, although I can’t imagine many people would declare it their favourite.
Jam making is not just for experts. You don’t need fancy equipment to learn how to make jam – just a couple of ingredients and a few nifty tips.
October is a month of unstoppable transition. There’ll even be a few summer crops still doggedly carrying on but ripening ever more slowly.