Category Archives: Allotments

Strawberry fields

We’ve just planted a new strawberry bed. Our first one was established in the spring of 2006. Florence and Mara des Bois. Here it is two years later, at the start of the season.


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Tomatillos and Salsa Verde

I don’t know quite why, but earlier this year I ordered some tomatillo seeds. All I knew about them was that they were used in Mexican cooking, but could be grown here in the UK, and were highly productive plants – a bit like sprawling tomato plants.

Well, that last bit was certainly right! Here are some of them. There are gherkins in the foreground, a line of tomatillos behind them, and sweetcorn behind the tomatillos:

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