Last night the residents of Mayfield Park were treated to their very own fringe show right here in our garden. Every year, Forth One runs a competition where you can win the chance to have fringe performers put on a wee show for you in your living room. I won! […]
My absolutely favourite flowers (well to have in a vase) are gladioli. It tends to be the flowers I buy when I want to brighten the house up. So when we planting up the garden this year a friend at work gave me a bag of gladioli bulbs which I […]
Beetroot tart has become a favourite of ours since we started growing our own beetroot. It’s a bit surprising to the uninitiated just how sweet beetroot can be, mostly I think because they’ve only tried the pickled beetroot from jars and just assume this is what beetroot actually tastes like. […]
Kate’s mum and dad are visiting for lunch today so we thought we’d treat them to some garden delights (since they are blog fans). So today’s lunch will be stuffed chicken breast wrapped in Parma ham with baby carrots, sautéed potatoes and asparagus (asparagus not from the garden). So pictures? […]
Remember we told you about hospital corner, about our fuchsia which we were trying to save? Well we thought we’d give you a quick update on how it’s looking. Before We had four fuchsias two of each colour but the winter had really taken […]
It seems that the birds approve of the leftover homemade bread we feed them to the extent that they decided to plant some grains so we can grind our own flour to make more!!!!
We are Kate & Eli, a middle-aged a Scottish couple sharing our adventures in growing veggies, fruit and flowers. We started in 2012 and have learned so much, so we thought, why not share?
