Tag: foraging

You can tell it’s a Bank Holiday weekend, can’t you? Anyway, just a couple of large bowls of crab apples from our tree, which has only been in the garden for a couple of years. Next year in particular should be a good crop. This is probably destined for winemaking… Speaking of which, we’ve now […]

So, we’ve used about 5 lbs of morello cherries, which we picked the other day, in this homebrew effort. Popped them in a pan with 5 pints of water, boiled them for a few minutes, then let it all cool before shoving the cherries and liquid all into a fermenting bin. At the same time, […]

Two gardening posts in two days? You lucky things… Here we have Morello Cherries, plucked from a tree in Oxfordshire (belonging to my girlfriend’s father), poured into four big pasta bowls. Is there anything nicer than picking fruit in the English countryside when the weather is scorching hot? (Yes, the addition of the knowledge that […]