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Sussex Sustainability, Cider & Gardening Country living, growing vegetables, sustainable growing and cider making It provides a sense of sufficiency, of self reliance.

For me there is nothing more satisfying in life than looking at the meal on your plate and knowing you raised and produced all the items in front of you. Now, I can’t say that I’ve ever done that what with not being a farmer or a hunter but as a humble suburban gardener I can at least provide the vast majority of ingredients to our daily meals. Potatoes, onions, tomatoes, salad, cucumber etc etc.

I grow all of these things to try and provide for my family throughout the year. The great challenge with really good vegetable gardening is not producing a crop; that bit is easy if you get the basics right. The real challenge is getting your vegetable plot not only productive throughtout the whole year but also into the next year. Problem is it is very easy to get it wrong (just ask my beetroot last year!). I find the cycle of life in the garden (and the vegetable plot) reaffirming. The garden is an escape and the vegetable plot the “Genius Loci” – the spirit of the place.

I got a bit bored.
27/12/2025

I got a bit bored.

Some of the lucky ones that get to stay in the relative warmth for winter. Under as much lighting as I have available. ...
23/10/2025

Some of the lucky ones that get to stay in the relative warmth for winter. Under as much lighting as I have available.

Yuzu lemons. Homegrown in Sussex. Fantastic in a G&T.
22/10/2025

Yuzu lemons. Homegrown in Sussex. Fantastic in a G&T.

Szechuan Pepper. tastes so strange. Addictive. 🌱
21/10/2025

Szechuan Pepper. tastes so strange. Addictive. 🌱

Ready for the press
07/09/2025

Ready for the press

Love a bit of tomato 🍅 with my basil!
12/07/2025

Love a bit of tomato 🍅 with my basil!

If you know you know. This is a major achievement for me at least. Happy.
31/05/2025

If you know you know. This is a major achievement for me at least. Happy.

You dont want cows in your garden
26/05/2025

You dont want cows in your garden

The tidy transformation.
31/03/2025

The tidy transformation.

jungle
24/08/2024

jungle

anyone have any good recipes for these?
24/08/2024

anyone have any good recipes for these?

Finally got my horned melon growing. hand pollination required.
09/08/2024

Finally got my horned melon growing. hand pollination required.

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