Tendrils: 170505
Hello and welcome to Tendrils! This week I’ve spotted finches feeding on these groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) weed seedheads, just outside the garden, and it’s nice to know they eat something other than birdseed. It’s Naked Gardening Day tomorrow, but rest assured,...
Increasing the vitamin D content of mushrooms
In his promotional activities for his new book, How to Eat Better, James Wong has been tweeting little bursts of advice on how to increase the nutritional benefits of the food that you eat. One such piece of advice, tweeted at the end of February, caught my eye. It...
Tendrils: 170429
Hello! Welcome to Tendrils 🙂 It has been a week of exciting weather here in the UK, with cold nights (including frosts in some places) and April showers that came down in solid format. The picture above was of hail damage to squash leaves in May 2015; so far this year...
Tendrils: 170422
Hello and welcome to an Earth Day 2017 edition of Tendrils! The Earth Day theme this year is Environmental & Climate Literacy, which I will once more explore through the medium of plants and gardening 😉 We’ll begin in the soil, with the (unsurprising) revelation...
Tendrils: 170414
Hello, and welcome to Tendrils! My assertion, earlier in the week, that forget-me-nots have edible flowers has caused some surprised reactions! You don’t have to (and shouldn’t!) take my word for it. I have added two sources to a comment on the original post: Eat the...About Me
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