Our Very Own Enormous Turnip!

The Dragontree vegetable garden has been a great success this year.
The highlight though was our ENORMOUS turnip… A tried, but she could not pull it up. M joined in to help but even then the turnip was not for coming out of the ground. Finally Mum had to help and with some vocal support from [...]

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The Dragontree Garden

“A” reports from The Dragontree Garden:
Here at Dragontree we have been growing our own fruit and vegetables.
We have turnips, parsnips, blackcurrants, peas, broad beans, onions, garlic and apples, strawberries, radish, tomatoes and runner beans.

We also planted some potatoes but they didn’t grow very well. We covered them over each time they sprouted up above the [...]

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Festive Food Technology

Ho Ho Ho!! (M) and (A) are getting to be accomplished cake- bakers, but this was their first home-made Christmas cake venture. They used a traditional recipe which included generous topping-up with brandy and particularly enjoyed arranging Mr and Mrs Claus on top. The cake turned out to be quite delicious and (M) and (A) [...]

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