Raspberry crumble
Despite the erratic periods of rain and sun in the past couple of months, it’s a fecund year for the raspberries. We bought the two raspberry canes two years ago…
Gardening
Red currant jam
Frozen red currants from the 2023 harvest. Less than two weeks to moving out of the house and move to Grenoble. Clearing and packing. One of the things that we…
Wild strawberries from the garden
Unlike the last two years, I haven’t done any germination of seeds this year. In the last two years around end March, ever since we bought the house, I would…
Strawberry fest
Strawberry Tart I should have paid more attention to my patch of strawberries. My negligence has led to the discard of many strawberries that got sunburnt. The discarded ones have…
Buying a beer for slugs
Spring is here. Weather is warmer. Colours are back. Flowers are everywhere. Life is dandy, right? No! My garden is being marauded by slugs and snails, and I don’t know…