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Between the Sierras & the Sea, Lanjarón, gateway to Las Alpujarras. Living in the spa town of Lanjaron in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, follow the adventures of life in this part of Andalucia.
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The tree that wont die – Part 2
Here is the latest picture of the tree that wont die. I chopped the tree down on 13th September and now 18 days later this is how much it has grown . . . . . hmmmm any suggestions out there??
The tree that wont die!
We have a few palm trees in the garden and they are all spiky. One in particular tree spiked me one time too many and so I cut it down! When they spike they must have some kind of venom in them as they hurt so much and go very deep into your skin, dangerous [...]
What to do with tomatoes and Millett
So we have more tomatoes than we know what to do with. Weve eaten them with most meals for the last month, made gallons of Tomato Frito (Puree) and still have left overs. Those remaining are getting very soft and ripe. We need to do something quick! So Richard decided to make his own derivative [...]
Veggie News
So it turns out the cauliflower is not cauliflower and is cabbage, I’ve taken a picture to show you the seed packet and the resulting veg! I was a little worried about the parsnip because someone said it looked like celery, and after the fun with the cabbage I decided today to pull up a [...]
Tomatoes
Here is a sample of out tomatoes. We have 2 types this year, the Cherry tomatoes and some big variety. The Cherry’s are a little disappointing flavour wise, the ones last year were great. The big ones however are fantastic. We picked over 200 the other day, so you can probably imagine we are eating [...]
More cucumbers
Hmmmm the cucumbers just wont stop growing and look nothing like the picture on the seed packet. You can tell the size of these beasts as my sunglasses are in the middle of them!!
Cucumber
Yes for those who know me know that I love cucumber and living in this part of Andalucia means you very rarely get the cucumbers that we are used to in the UK, so I decided to try and grow some! hmmmm this is what was found amongst the leaves this morning, my very first [...]
Garlic
Today I pulled all of our garlic and now its drying on the roof terrace, not bad considering ive no idea what im really doing. I think there is going to be alot of garlic eaten in the next few months! We may smell awful but it will keep the flys away!
Carrots – where did it all go wrong!
Today I decided to dig up the carrots and see what was happening to them! Wish I hadnt bothered. I think it all went wrong when I didnt thin them out as seedlings which has produced strange shaped carrots. Lots of stones in soil didnt help, even the ants had moved into them! This is [...]
Under attack
I had the fright of my life today, I was checking on the veg, arrived at the courgettes pondering ‘should I pick any’ when with my next footfall a 2meter long as thick as your fist brown snake shot out and took off up and away from me (thank god). Unfortunately it moved so fast, and [...]
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