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  • How to cook Sausages!!(on the beach!!) You will need; a beach, an old frying pan, a small amount of dry kindling wood, dry logs and a large tree!! oh yes, matches (or Bear Grylls!) and sausages! A lovely warm evening, friends and a glass of cider, and if you can… someone else to cook the […]

  • Honey, Honey, Honey!!! At last, some sticky honey!! Although we’ve lost a few bees (Remember the swarm in the garden?! June 2010) we have finally got our hands on the sticky stuff! It tastes great, really tasty. Mmmm!!!! Delicious!

  • Anya’s Veg Patch Whilst looking through some photos earlier this week, I discovered some of the Pumpkin Patch gardens – taken in June this year. This was after the spring heat wave and before the summer rains! Things started slowly in the spring due to the dry and hot weather, I doubted at one stage […]

  • Summer Holiday Clubs 2010 Another school year over and it’s time for the summer holiday clubs!I love this time of year… lazy Saturday mornings, a real treat for me!(no Pumpkin Patch!!) Tuesday mornings however… a mad rush to prepare for the day’s events! The Holiday club is a relaxed mix of preparing lunch ….following a […]

  • Ready Steady Cook!

    Carnival day arrived…the equivalent of the village fate here in Nangaredig! All the local children enjoy the freedom to roam about the village with friends whilst Mum and Mamgu sit and enjoy the fierce competition of Ready Steady Cook!! It doesn’t seem difficult to find a willing pair of celebrities in this rugby crazy part […]

  • Yummy Scrummy and very Messy!

    The Pumpkin Patch travelled to Llwynhendy recently to run cooking with the family classes for a group of Mums and toddlers. The Family Center at Llwynhendy was an amazing venue, well equiped, spacious with plenty of electric sockets for all the induction hobs and griddles that we needed! We cooked savoury casseroles and pies and […]

  • It’s Swarm in the Garden

    These are the ones that got away! One minute they were there and the very next… they were gone! It was a hot, very hot Saturday in May. Thankfully The Pumpkin Patch workshop was just about to end… we’d just watered the greenhouse plants… very nearby and then the sky turned black and very noisy!! […]

  • Gardening Week!

    Gardening Week at the new St Catherines Walk, Carmarthen. The Pumpkin Patch recently set up camp in the new St Catherines Walk shopping center in Carmarthen. Not the usual place to dig, plant and design a garden…but we did! The Cottage garden, a mixture of flowers and vegetables, and a cottage!! Below, the kitchen garden […]

  • Spring Lamb and Green Fingers! The spring has well and truly arrived with lovely bright mornings and light evenings .. a great time for gardeners! The crisp early mornings are still cold enough to damage small seedlings, so we still need to be careful about what we plant out. Just to remind ourselves that Spring […]