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This is an attempt to document my efforts to grow and eat locally around Melbourne, Derbyshire. My family own a nine acre smallholding on which we grow fruit and vegetables and keep bees, and chickens, but that won't feed us alone, so the idea is to get to know our local produce and to see how easy/hard it is to follow a diet that is local to within 30 miles. The fun part is also trying some new (easy) recipes that use home-grown and local produce. Feel free to comment, send in recipes, and share your experiences of buying and eating locally.

Saturday, 14 July 2012

First cucumber in the greenhouse

Cucumbers are so easy to grow and produce masses of cucumbers for almost no work, apart from daily watering and a weekly feed with a bit of home-made comfrey liquid feed. I always find that almost every seed germinates so they are also really cheap to grow, and home grown cucumbers are so much sweeter then the watery shop-bought ones.
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