Saturday 15 September 2018

The first Quince.

The first Quince fruits in my garden - planted on OCTOBER 2011.
If you leave a quince on a sunny windowsill it will slowly release a
delicate fragrance of vanilla, citrus, and apple into your kitchen.
When you stew quince in sugar and a little water or wine, it becomes
not just edible but delicious - sweet, delicate, fragrant.







Thursday 31 May 2018

15 sensational plant combinations you can try at home from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017 | Jack Wallington Garden Design, Clapham in London

15 sensational plant combinations you can try at home from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017 | Jack Wallington Garden Design, Clapham in London:

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The war on slugs starts at home. Toby Buckland.

- The war on slugs starts at home - Telegraph:

- drop slugs and snails into boiling water
let it stand for few days until it smells strongly
water around endangered crops

- Recipe collect slugs in jar with lid and leave for two days.
Tip out into egg carton and burn them over wood fire in garden grill pan.
Sieve ash and grind down then scatter around plants or border edges in square potagers.
Acts as a deterrent and whilst pepper ash does not go far, a solution using 1part slug ash to nine parts diluting substance (ash or water) can then be ground and poured around plants.
Kept in an airtight tin this dilution can be kept for several years.
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