G is for Grains
Recently I was reading the results of a survey (which, annoyingly I can’t find now) about why we waste so much food, and it turns out that a significant proportion of people don’t like eating leftovers. They’d rather just throw them out. They have a...
Tendrils: 170708
Hello! Tendrils wilted in the heat yesterday, but I have revived it in a bucket of water over night and I think it will stay fresh enough to provide you with some wonderful weekend reading 😉 If you’re heading to Cornwall this summer, foragers are being being...
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Hello, and welcome to Tendrils! This week the UK has been in the grip of what used to be called wintry weather, but is now touted as something a lot more apocalyptic. My garden wasn’t in the path of
When Plants Attack: Glassing grass
This is a ‘green and pleasant land’, due at least in part to our national obsession with lawns 🙂 Now that the cooler, damper weather is upon us, it’s time to stop bemoaning the brown and crispy look of our lawns (did that happen this year?) and look...
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Welcome to Tendrils! Your weekly recap of the most interesting internet information on plants and gardening. We start this week with a bit of history…. The Maris Piper – a famous potato variety – is 50 years old this year. There’s a whole blog...About Me
Hello, my name is Emma.
I'm an ethnobotanist. I love edible and useful plants, and my garden is my sanctuary. I'm building a beautiful, bountiful paradise in my back yard.
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