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No food, other than asparagus, says ‘spring’ to me quite like strawberries. There is nothing like the sight and smell of a basket of beautiful, bright, red, ripe strawberries. I avoid buying them out of season, so when strawberry season comes around, we take full …
One of last summer’s ‘Terra Incognitas’ was making strawberry jam. My strawberry plants had finally hit their stride and I had more strawberries than we could eat – and we can eat a lot of strawberries. I decided to try making jam. I started looking …
Every year we grow a modest vegetable garden. Some years are good – others not so good. A few years ago we had a ‘Good Tomato Year’. That year we had loads of tomatoes for eating, but also for chili, pizza and spaghetti sauce, as …
I know it will snow again – in fact the forecast says we’ll be getting some next week. But the days are getting longer, the sun is higher in the sky, and it’s feeling like spring to me. I’ve packed away my sweaters and brought …