The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary

Earlier in the year Binty decided to grow some chillies, not because the Binty household like spicy things, but because Mr P-J does.  So, once they were ready to come out of the greenhouse we inherited six little chilli plants.  Well, 5 and a half as one is a bit dodgy... These little plants have been living…

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core..." -- To Autumn, John Keats   Over the past few…