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This was one crown of Rhubarb planted into the garden two years ago now, there are at the last count, now seven crowns! Once I have cut off the flower spikes a bit of separating needs to be done, this isn’t the ideal time to get on with this but if I don’t do it [...]

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Cider

Our usual ritual of Cider making has begun in ernest.
It’s normally a pretty long winded run of events, as we have previously chopped our apples using a food mixer before putting the pulp into the press.
But on a rare day off in the week for the DH. He went to his seemingly all time favourite [...]

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In the summer I made rather a lot of Elderflower wine, a beautifully simple country wine recipe that if treated with a little care makes a very delicately aromatic and flovoursome abate rather alcoholic wine!
So with some ‘help’ from the little girl we set to bottling two demijohns of said concotion.
I tend to sterilise my [...]

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