Using Edible Flowers

Using Edible Flowers

Edible flowers have been on our minds at Fieldcrest Garden this year, preparing for our course in how to grow and use edible flowers, including roses, geraniums and marigolds. There are a few things that you always need to bear in mind when thinking about using...

Salad Box and Provencal Mushrooms

The ‘woody’box holds some red and green salad bowl lettuces, plus some oregano. These lettuces are called ‘cut and come again’ (CCA) varieties. The lettuce can be cut down to a few inches from the base and then wait for it to regrow, or individual leaves from the...
This Week…May 11th

This Week…May 11th

The 4 baby great tits are still growing and have feathers and their eyes are open. They are also very noisy! I still fear for one of the babies as the other three literally sit on top of it and prevent it eating. The mother bird was not in the next last night – I am...

Spring 2013

Hurray, spring is on it’s way! I am beginning to  re-awaken after my Winter hibernation and  am venturing out into the garden. I am definitely a fair weather gardener. Seed sowing has now begun in earnest, but I am now behind having been struck down by a horrible...