Recipes
Delicious ways to use your harvest.
How to make your own pruning paste
Pruning paste is helpful for keeping your fruit trees healthy after pruning.
Sponge-top pudding
Use your fruit harvests by making this simple comforting dessert on these dark winter nights.
Apple crumble
My favourite way to use our apple harvest.
Making Nana Retter’s Fruit Cake
Last Christmas I joined a long line of women in my family who have made my great grandmother’s fruit cake.
Marilyn’s Cheesy Leeks
A simple, quick and utterly delicious cheese sauce used by my mother to hide all kinds of vegetables, including my favourite, leeks.
Glazed Thyme Carrots
A delicious way to use 2 common ingredients growing in the garden – carrots and thyme.