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Where do tomatoes come from?

Ripe tomatoes Tomatoes are ripening in greenhouses all over the country by now. The outside crop unfortunately failed again this year at most places as...

Growing Hydrangea

Hydrangeas are native to southern and eastern Asia and America. Hydrangeas thrive this year as they enjoy all the rain and cooler temperatures. There...

Foraging.

Many of us are or have been foragers at one time or another, often without realising that what we are doing. Picking brambles for...

First pods

With the sunshine the first pods arrived too on the plot. Don't ask what variety this runner bean is as I had to buy...

Tomato crop only in the greenhouse

Well the sunshine has arrived but for my outside tomatoes a bit too late. As you can see in my previous post they have...

Sick tomato plants

In this wet and humid weather most of us didn't have a chance to grow tomatoes outdoors successfully. I thought I had managed to...