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How To Eat Slowly – Time to Think Christmas and Beyond

By | 6 July 2012

Midsummer may only have been a whisper ago, and we’re still far from the fug of bonfire smoke in the air, but it’s now the edible garden starts to fill [...]

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How To Eat Slowly – Midsummer Garden

By | 22 June 2012

The blackcurrants are closer to a washed out wine stain, than inky black but Midsummer has been reached in the garden. The fruits are particularly large, and will need a [...]

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How To Eat Slowly – A Red Garden

By | 15 June 2012

The tiny wild strawberries, planted as raggedly crowns last winter, are finally ripening. Barely the size of a child’s fingernail, they are deepest red, and utterly fragrant, with a rose-come-pineapple [...]

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Garden Essentials for all weathers

Wishful thinking and making your garden “weather” proof

By | 14 June 2012

Being outside in the sunshine is something that’s hardwired into us Brits. I “blame” my parents thrusting me out into the garden with “why are you indoors? Go play outside” [...]

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How To Eat Slowly – Time for Cake

By | 8 June 2012

This week, has been peculiarly British, celebrating 60 years of reigning of our Queen, in near 60 hours of continuous rain. The roses which form the background of my potager-garden [...]

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How To Eat Slowly – A Celebratory Feast

By | 1 June 2012

Whether you are preparing food for a street party, or just a long bank holiday feast, there is much to celebrate with in the Garden this week. My urban garden [...]

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How To Eat Slowly – Floral Symphony

By | 25 May 2012

For an urban gardener-come-cook the weather this week has been quite dramatic: you can almost hear the peas squeaking as they flail around the bamboo canes, tiny scarlet wild strawberry [...]

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An interview with garden designer Emma Bond

By | 19 December 2011

I met the lovely Emma Bond via twitter, when she responded to a plea for creative spaces for my own blog. We’ve since become twitter pals, and so when I [...]

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