A GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE vegetable patch needs healthy soil, and a good maxim to remember us that you should put back as much if not more goodness from your soil than that which you have taken out in the way of crops.
Simply put, if you grow a lot of food, then you need to replace [...]
By Helen Rowe.
At the beginning of this saga of the monster house I said it had not been lived in for over twenty years, the contents of the house had not been touched in this period (by human hand).
On the day of purchasing the house we ask the daughter and family did they wish to [...]
Last month I wrote a small general article on what we have been doing to become slightly self-sufficient or Self’ish. I read somewhere that the man who mends his shoes or clothes, takes a small step towards being self-sufficient, and it is up to an individual as to how far they wish to take it.
For us, [...]
THAT IS THE question….. Or maybe it’s the question we should be asking ourselves, but over a lazy luxurious breakfast in the sun, one morning last week, the question we asked was ‘to weed or not to weed’?
Or when contemplating the weeds on our gravelled area at the entrance of the house, where [...]
LAST MONTH I wrote about our house The Monster, here are more of the stories and sometimes ridiculous situations we encountered.
Starting with the front door and its key : there was only one and it measured about seven inches and was very chunky not one to slip into your pocket and forget! Nevertheless I was [...]
WE ARE SO lucky to have the beautiful pine-clad mountains, scenic green valleys dotted with vineyards and the uncluttered coastline with its dramatic cliff tops and clear blue waters lapping onto the pure sandy beaches, that you would have thought that was quite enough.
But oh no, we also have on our doorstep the Pyrenees, covered [...]
Growing up in the sixties, some of my earliest memories were of my Dad out in the garden on a Sunday morning, doing the heavy work, digging beds over, under my mother’s careful instruction.
She was the boss – and woe betide anyone who played football too near to her greenhouse – the font of all [...]
At last spring is here, time to brighten the garden and in doing so, lift ones spirit. There is nothing quite like buying annuals, just to decorate and give a different appearance to certain crucial areas of the garden.
Many, so called annuals will last me for years here in Catalunya, and I have long since [...]
