I used to think you could never have too many plums but now that some of the trees we planted 10 years ago  are maturing, I’m not so sure!   My reasoning was that you could make a lot of preserves with them, plum jam and plum sauce being the two main ones. Or you could eat them fresh, stewed, with breakfast etc. Yes you can do all that and thank goodness for the freezer, because if you’re not ready to make jam just now, then pop them straight into the freezer and use them when you need to later on in the winter

I sometimes feel a little smug after I have managed to get my elderflower cordial made and my sparkling elderflower bottled and brewing away in the shed. I post about it and then my friend Shelley will comment that she has made hers as well but she has also MADE MARMALADE FROM THE LEFTOVER LEMONS.  I’m talking about the lemons leftover from the elderflower brewing process. I know it’s not a competition but I definitely think if it was, she would win.  Talk about resourceful!

Well the mid-winter solstice is upon us now and today I am going to be doing a bit of a tongue-in – cheek ‘ceremonial” planting of garlic. It is traditionally planted on the shortest day and harvested on the longest and as I am a fan of tradition – I am going to plant some in a facebook live.   All going well.   Meaning – if I can get my husband to be the cameraman as I won’t be able to plant, talk and hold the camera at the same time.