August is the month for dusting off the jam pan. So far the apples have started landing regularly on the lawn. Rather than waste these early fruits they have been transformed into ‘Spiced Apple Jelly’ with just a hint of the old favourite – Chilli! Without a greenhouse at the moment the chillies are slow and few, but the next project, since there are apples a plenty on the tree, is an apple press, it seems the best way to construct one is with a bottle jack and some stout timber, both of which are lying around in the shed! Whether cider is attempted or not rather depends on the juice – it might get drunk too quickly!
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Planting

I have been meaning to get around to stop prevaricating about this and post these pictures, however, I’ve been busy digging. We are preparing a ‘church-yard garden’ It’s not ready yet, but some of the plants in the pictures below are now installed in their new home. Hopefully come summer / autumn / spring we will have some lovely purple sprouting, cauliflower broccoli etc.

The plants have been arranged in a labyrinth pattern so that people can walk between them, just a small thing, but it brightens up the grass, and gets people talking – not to mention breaking backs digging!!!

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