Growing sunflowers have two great advantages. The first is that they are pretty. I don’t think anyone will contest that.
The second is that they produce sunflower seeds if pollinated sufficiently. As well as being convenient to eat, they also possess an array of health benefits.

Towards the end of last season, when the head of the sunflower looked decidedly downbeat, [...]

Having procrastinated cheese making for a while, I got cracking on it today and have a great batch of homemade mozzarella to show for it.
I followed the recipe from Home Cheese Making for “30 minute mozzarella”. I used pasteurized (but not ultra-pasteurized) homogenized milk, almost 4 litres of it. I didn’t have any powdered citric [...]

It always seems a bit over-wintry generally here in Ireland. However, in gardening terms overwintering plants correctly can maximize their performance the following season.
At the start of last December, I saved much of the tarragon by freezing it in ice cubes. Shortly afterwards, the tarragon went brown and died down. I then removed all parts [...]