My Quiet Life in Suffolk

 You'd think that I knew there were two large aubergines on my one plant in the greenhouse but they grew without me really noticing. Pro...

.............so long and thin? I asked myself. Not the usual  pear shape. I picked these four, despite three of them not being very big, bef...

 A much better week weather-wise - at last. The sun shone on more than one day - which is an achievement for this year so far. I went swimmi...

Apologies for not replying to comments  or commenting elsewhere much this week. I've been avoiding the the lap-top in the evenings and g...

 I had a fright one morning in the week before last - looked in the greenhouse and all my babies were looking a bit limp - of course it was ...

I've always grown some leeks from seed - they are so expensive to buy from the supermarket in winter and well worth growing. I had a fai...

 A couple of weeks ago I used a Morrison's Red Thai Curry Kit (£2) to make a big pan of good looking vegetable curry to go in the freeze...

A colour plate dating from the C19 in a little book about vegetables I picked up for £2.46 from Abebooks. Been waiting for it to appear chea...

I found a comment from Elizabeth left on the gardening post over a week ago asking what Aubergines seeds I grew.This year they were 'Gen...

 Things are coming along OK - although we need rain. I filled up the big water butt from the mains a couple of weeks ago and now it's em...

 The car went for it's annual service and MOT on Monday and I didn't even have to take it the 3 miles because Ashley,one of mechanic...

Notes from the week.................... Wanted.......... someone with a strong boot to dig out 4 dead-ish rose bushes. They were here whe...

Since I wrote about how quickly the first aubergine was growing on the 23rd June, the greenhouse has produced lots of aubergines, I sent som...

Thanks for comments on yesterday's post. As I said it was theoretical - just a look at what was available for £9 and how close I could g...

Thank you to everyone for comments about the Bee-Orchids. I love the randomness of how they just pop up one at a time unannounced and still...

A Yellow weather warning in force today for high winds. It was already windy yesterday afternoon but  incredibly warm........... I had windo...

Now is when I start to wonder why I have so many Aubergine Plants producing so many Aubergines! This could be why I grow them.............