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I have metal buckets too, but with my new-ish firebox, I dont usually get all that much ash from it unless I turn the damper down over night. Its carbon neutral and seems to 'disappear' the ash for most of the time. When I do need to empty it out, I use these smallish metal buckets and they are...

Do you age the ash or put in straight away?

...but we eat Chilli and love it. The first time I ever had Vietnamese 'mint' I thought I had eaten something poisonous.

lol, fairs fair. Today, I drove off to my neighbour two doors down to collect my 3 tree ferns. It wound up being 4 but I'm not complaining. It just meant that I needed to work out where the forth one was going to go and dig a hole for it. So....now I have a water tank surrounded by tree ferns...

Um...no, it isnt the seed that you use as a spice, its their casing. Its not so much hot as in heat, its more of a sensation. I liken it to touching your tongue on both terminals of a 9 volt battery. lol I have been eyeing up my more mature one and trying to figure out how many meals I'm going...

Maybe you could check out Sichuan pepper plants, either the evergreen or deciduous ones. The thorns on those puppies would make them think twice! My Deciduous one is now flowering for its second time, i cant wait. I did plant it where no dog or wilful child would think of going cos these thorns...

Today, I used my scissor hole digger thingy to make three holes for the tree ferns to get popped into and that was it in the garden. Cant wait for tomorrow! But I did get a gate I just happened to have lying around and bolted that into the doorway of my old shed- had unwelcome night guests...

...your tomato garden takes half a day? OMG!

I finally got all 26 san Marzano tomatoes planted out....not the 40 seedlings that grew although I did keep some back just in case I needed replacements. I visited my daughter this week and 'helped' clear out some of their bamboo which got used for stakes...not as tall as I would have liked...

Down here, leeks are supposed to be planted by January at the latest-mid summer....mine were probably planted around April, so they are even now, still the size of obese spring onions and already starting to try to flower. BUT! They are so tasty. I've been to Florida and no way is it that hot...

Tonights dinner- curry with My leeks (instead of onions), my broccolli, carrots, celery, fennel seed, nigella seed, garlic....the rest was bought-fenugreek seed, mustard seed, tumeric, coconut cream, rice and chicken Getting there slowly.

Nails!! Yeah, gold as far as I am concerned. I always recycle the ones I have to pull out. When I was little and liked to play with my grandfathers tools, he set me to straightening all his nails out, I still do this today. Waste not want not and all that.

We need a 'Yum!' button.

Yep. its sort of shaped like a skep hive.

Yes, but then, it also depends on the temps. your winter are. Too cold and they just wont grow. There are always other beneficial insect plants and times to plant out, so it does pay to think local, for all beneficial insects, not just my furry little friends.

Turnips along with Daikon radish are one of my fav plants to sow late summer early fall so that they flower from late winter right through to late spring. Bees just love them for both the nectar and ample pollen supplies. Personally, I cant stand turnips.

oops, not too sure what happened there... We had a rather warm wet winter this year with maybe one hard frost. I checked both tubs a couple of months ago to find there were still tubers in both tubs, but a couple of weeks ago had a feel around to find...rot. Thats so weird, that first post had...

...Weeelll, I just checked both of mine and they had both rotted. I checked well after the latest frost, not that we actually had many this year. It was a rather warm, wet winter.

I learnt that sweet potatoes are Not like normal ones, you cant leave them in the ground expecting them to regrow the next year- they just rot.

Yesterday, I finally made some home made pasta-wide ribbon and made a Ragu from bought passata, my baby leeks, carrots celery, parsley and some of my dried NZ Oyster mushrooms. Delish. I spotted some Avocadoes in the tree that I managed to pull off with an extension pole thingy that has a nifty...