After much blog chatter about my Bok Choi it was first harvest this week. It was a low key affair as I grabbed two plants from the potager in a hurry on my way back from putting the chickens to bed. I do the messy clean up of the plants in the utility room, close... Midwinter it may be but this evening I had that summer evening feeling. That sort of content and satisfied feeling you get after you’ve had a great day. For us here at Domestic Executive HQ that means sunshine and hard graft outside in the garden. This... It’s only when the digger arrives and starts churning things up do you realise what a mess there is going to be. Again. Just when we think we’ve cleaned up and sorted out the piles of soil I get another hairbrained idea which requires the heavy soil... I’m not sure it’s a good thing when this happens to your Bok Choi. One day they were growing leaves and the next moment I turn and look they are sprouting flowers. Pesky things. There is plenty of growth in the potager right now on account of the... Jack Frost paid an unexpected visit overnight so we woke up to early sunshine and frosts. It was mighty chilly I can tell you, so chilly that George the pesky rooster wasn’t rushing out from the chicken house this morning to bully all the other hens. The... 