My Quiet Life in Suffolk: Peppers and Pond

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 Two extra peppers, sliced and  put into the freezer. If the opposite crops hadn’t have been nobbled all of them would have appeared like this. There’s one pepper left which I will use recent this week. I solely grew this pointed selection this 12 months however subsequent 12 months I am planning on rising among the orange block formed ones that I grew final 12 months, as a result of having  all one kind is a bit boring.

I used the one remaining inexperienced pepper, my one small butternut squash, an onion, some potatoes, a courgette and chopped small a few of my  runner beans plus half a jar of Korma curry paste and a tin of coconut milk to make a pan of curry which divided into 5 parts for the freezer = about 70p a portion

That is the start of my small sink-pond, nonetheless quite a bit to kind out.  It’ll ultimately have slabs and stones all spherical to cover the pond liner. I want one thing to place in it to permit critters to climb out and one thing to place throughout a nook for shade after which I will get some oxygenating crops and a few pond snails.  Want extra stones too – I had a bag of white pebbles purchased throughout lockdowns with the  

 intention of portray them and Granddaughter introduced me just a few spherical pebbles again from their vacation, Brother-in-Regulation donated a bucket filled with flints that he had sitting round in his backyard however tons extra wanted and they don’t seem to be straightforward to search out on this a part of the nation the place we’ve no pure stone – solely flints – that are normally small.

 Maybe it would appeal to some frogs subsequent spring……or not!

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