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From The Garden To The Table

The transformation of my garden, growing the most delicious food, edible garden design, plant ideas, recipes, cocktails, fermentation and more
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A small forest garden
Watch now (25 mins) | August felt like a good time not to send newsletters to pile up like issues of the local free newspaper on the doormat for when…
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Figs: a fruit and a herb
In 1988, I ate my first fresh fig. It was handed to me by the person who’d grown it on the Greek island of Santorini. It was melting, succulent and with…
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I'm in a lemon verbena state of mind
as Billy Joel almost said
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One rather than a hundred
Watch now (23 secs) | I’ve never been much of a July and August kind of guy. When you have skin like supermarket pastry, it takes three weeks…
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Weekly window into our gardens
Morning morning morning. I've just got back from walking the dog. At least I think it was our dog I was walking, as it was so misty I could hardly see…
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Nine star broccoli
Watch now (1 min) | Despite growing perhaps as great a variety of food as anyone in this country - everything from pecans to almonds, Chilean guava to…
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Wild garlic: two almost recipes
If you look at Lake Como in Italy on a map, it resembles a skinny blue figure, striding west through the hills of northern Italy. When I was half the…
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