At last we have reached the end of this years mammoth tomato harvest.  This is it, the end, finito, no more tomatoes to pick.  Half of...

Last weekend I pulled up all the garlic that I have grown this year in the net tunnel, I left it overnight with some of the soil still ...

A random harvest, that's what I call the things I bring back into the house after cleaning out the henhouse each morning. There...

I harvested our stunted growth garlic back in August of this year,   The rabbits had feasted on the greenery leaving the bulbs with...

Storing the food we grow ourselves is almost as important as the actual growing of it.  If we are to get to any level of self sufficien...

Back in June of this year I got these three Tomtato plants so I could have a go at growing them and see if they are worth the money and...

We went out with the apple picker yesterday and managed in five minutes to get this little lot, a total of 8 kgs of lovely Bramleys.    ...

The nut harvest is in ..... all three Almonds have now left the tree ;-) In other news .... we are also eating the last of the l...

The polytunnel in October is starting to feel totally different to how it was in the heat of the Summer.  The cooler, shorter days an...

You see so many of the 'feet' shots in blog world, but I was walking back from the polytunnel yesterday clutching the morning...

This month, and indeed most of last month has been all about preserving.  Taking what grew this Summer preserving it during Autumn, to b...