Gardeners have a love-hate relationship with rain. Too much and we can’t get out in to the garden, the soil is too wet to dig, some precious plants rot and, of course, it’s perfect weather for slugs and snails. Too little and there’s a risk of losing plants and watering is hard work. How can […]
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I was given some beautiful Jerusalem artichokes. I stoved them: a way of cooking that is part-frying, part-steaming. This is how I did it (a recipe from the estimable Jane Grigson). You can adjust the quantities according to how many artichokes you have. Ingredients: Jerusalem artichokes Olive oil Butter Parsley Garlic Salt and pepper Method:
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This is a Bosnian dish, properly made with pickled cabbage that has been salted as for sauerkraut. You can pickle your own cabbage, ask your Bosnian friends for one or even acquire one ready-pickled from various places in the Uxbridge Road. Best of all, you can use your own cabbages, blanch the leaves and give
This is a summer dish, really, but we eat it all the year round and everyone loves it. However much you make, however many beans you use, it all seems to go at a sitting. You can use any sort of green beans. The original recipe is, I believe, from Spain and intended for those
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The CHAS is affiliated to Garden Organic, who are running a citizen science project with Coventry University on the impact of biochar on crop yield. If you’d like to take part please fill in this form and send it to Garden Organic. Information on biochar project Form to participate in biochar project
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