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Easter, Flowers, Spring

Seasonal bouquet – Easter edition

by vera@gtc • 18/04/2017 • 0 Comments

One of my #gardengoals for this year is to pick more flowers from the garden. Even though there are actually lots of flowers growing there, the bouquets I picked during the past year could be counted on the fingers of…

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Gardening, Spring

Easy polyculture of annual vegetables – video

by vera@gtc • 04/04/2017 • 8 Comments

One of the main principles of permaculture is diversity. Taking a hint from nature and combining plants into diverse polycultures instead of growing row upon row of the same thing  makes great use of the space available, discourages disease and…

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Gardening, Spring

March 2017 in our permaculture garden – video!

by vera@gtc • 23/03/2017 • 0 Comments

Mid-March is usually the time when we can start sowing and planting outside but it’s also the last possibility to plant bare-root trees – here are some things that we’re up to in our garden this month! For an early…

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Fall, Mains, Vegetables, Winter

Butternut squash and ricotta gnocchi

by vera@gtc • 16/03/2017 • 4 Comments

Our supply of home-grown butternut squashes is dwindling. The good thing about that is that it frees up space under our bed which is where I’ve been storing them much to the chagrin of my son who’s the one doing…

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Fall, Mains, Soups, Vegetables, Winter

1 butternut squash, 3 dishes

by vera@gtc • 20/02/2017 • 3 Comments

If you’ve watched my video about the 7 winter squash varieties we’d grown in 2016, you’ve heard me talking about what I call ‘one-meal-squash’ varieties. I prefer squashes that don’t get too big so that we can use a fruit…

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Gardening

The garden in 2016

by vera@gtc • 18/01/2017 • 11 Comments

Even though I still call our garden ‘the new garden’, we have a full year of tending our dream plot behind us and it may be time to drop the ‘new’. I can’t wait for the 2017 season to start…

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14 rhubarb recipes

by vera@gtc • 07/04/2020

It’s RHUBARB TIME!!! In case my use of all caps and exclamation marks has not clued you in: I AM EXCITED! Another clue as to my love for rhubarb is the number of rhubarb recipes on this website: no less…

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Cake, Fruits, Spring

Rhubarb big crumb cake

by vera@gtc • 09/06/2017

Most of the time it’s just the two of us working in the garden so on the rare occasion that we get some help I’m always amazed by how much can be done in a couple of hours. About two…

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Gardening, Spring

May tour of the kitchen garden

by vera@gtc • 27/05/2017

It’s finally gotten warmer which means the plant growth has accelerated. Up till now things were moving slowly – April was cold with some heavy frosts and I was delaying planting out non-hardy vegetables like tomatoes and squash. But with…

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Bread, Breakfast, Fruits, Spring, Summer

Roasted strawberry cinnamon rolls

by vera@gtc • 21/05/2017

My daughter is in the middle of her finals, marking the end of her high school career. She’s pretty calm and undoubtedly doing well in her exams. There’s not much we can do for her at this point but in…

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