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What a difference two months make! From those puny little tomato plants to 5 foot plants that are 1-2 weeks away from giving us the first ripe fruit! I think that the rockwool slab system I'm trying out

So...it's been 2 months since the last post about the outside plants. What happened since? The cherry bloomed and set millions of fruit but most of them dried off. Still have quite a few left, way more

Yeah, it happened :D First greenhouse beer in this growing season! This was from Blacksheep Brewery . It did not have the milkshake look at all but it was a really, really good beer. I've got the first

Spring is officially here according to my plants. The weather seems not to have received the notice as we had a couple of nights of negative temps. My pear is in full bloom. The bees are all over it and

Alright! New season; let the games begin! Temps have been stable for the last week, they didn't drop under 8C during the night for the last few days now so I got trigger happy and got most of my seedlings

Last weeks bake was another fail, but only because it wasn't thoroughly baked and maybe a bit over proofed. I've used the same recipe again: 270g 100% hydration starter, 300g white wheat flour, 40g whole

I've got myself a little grafting tool. These things used to be expensive but, luckily for me, not anymore. I'm pretty impressed by it so far. I've got 3 different blades for various style of cuts. I've

The seedlings I've started last week are reaaaaaally leggy. Some of them might even be too leggy to be viable but we shall see. Wanted to do something about it and did not want to spend anything, nor repurpose

This is another go at baking a nice and fluffy sourdough bread from the beer starter and ... I kinda failed again, heh. The recipe I used was 270g 100% hydration starter, 300g white wheat flour, 40g whole

With the warmest February in history around here I felt like I need to get my (green)house in order so I got it ready for the new season. I've decided to get rid of all the Dutch buckets and swap over

This is an epic 60 years old journey. Epic, even if I'm the only one to call it so. For me it starts with this bad boy. A lovely, crisp beer. This beer's story though, starts a while back, 58 years ago

Today I was planning to fill the whole fence with espaliered trees but I wasn't that lucky. It got pretty cold today and I ran out of steel wire so I was only able to do one tree. Unlike the cherry tree,

A while ago I had my old decrepit fence removed and replaced all wooden posts with concrete ones. Instead of adding fence panels I've decided I would try and fill the space with a living fence. I've always

Like the title says, Happy New Year everyone! Hope you're having a good one so far! Thought I'd start the year with something quirky and here we are, the Cucumelon sour by Adnams. Got a thin head that

Like the title says, happy St. Nicholas day to all of you, regardless if you celebrate it or not! Am a bit old for it really but hey, Nic knows what to get adults too, heh! I cleaned the strawberry bed

It is the pruning season and I haven't really done any of the trees or fruit bushes. I did have a quick go at cleaning 2 rosemary plants though. First was the largest bush I have. It looked in a great

Hi all! Haven't posted in a reaaaaally long time now. Today I've taken all the plants out of the greenhouse, should have done it a while ago but didn't get round to it. Got a last crop; these toms will

Grapes, baby! This is the first year I've had this plant so it's great to see it fruiting. The kumquat dropped all of its fruit... this is the only one I found and it is tiny, I doubt that it will start

It's been a while, close to two weeks now. I haven't really done anything in the greenhouse except picking some of the veg so everything became really over grown. Just look at this one plant; so many

This plant is insane when it comes to side shoots. It's the Sunbaby. They're growing from any part of the plant..from the stem, check; leaves, check; fruit trusses, check again... it's really annoying.