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Garden Diary – Wildlife watching whilst watering
At last, a fresher breeze on Monday morning when I was out watering, I’d almost forgotten what cool felt like! I am a bit fed-up spending so much more time watering when I’d rather be gardening, especially at this time of year when there’s so much to do. There is a benefit though of watering, as it makes me stand still, which gives me time to notice even more wildlife. I’ve had a ‘silver Y’ moth on the scabious every morning, which has encouraged me to keep deadheading. I always thought of moths as nocturnal but I’ve been surprised how many are around in the daytime. It seems the glut…
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Courgette & Cauliflower Cheese Vegetable Lasagne – You’ll never want a meat one again!
Can be gluten free If you grow your own summer squashes, then you too will be desperate for new things to do with them. They certainly are prolific croppers. Over the years we have used courgettes and other summer squashes in more and more inventive ways. One of our favourites is to use it in Courgette cake which we eat for breakfast with yogurt, it’s really good! But we have a new favourite! I speak to you as a meat eater when I tell you that this vegetable lasagne is far, far better than a traditional beef lasagne! If this dish doesn’t convert the most ardent carnivore to eating at…
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Cherry and Courgette Cake
As the cherries on our cherry tree tend to ripen within a short space of time, we bake with them. Turning them into the best Cherry Bakewell you’ve ever tasted, or today a Cherry and Courgette cake. If you grow your own courgettes, you will know that once the plant starts producing fruits, you can hardly keep up! Over the years we’ve come up with no end of uses for them, both raw and cooked. In recent years we have been making cakes with them, as they coincide with our soft fruit harvests. They add bulk, fibre and extra vitamins to our cakes. Rather than eating these delicious confectionaries the…
