tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703817848238285099.post1420230994693072380..comments2024-03-29T10:26:57.115+00:00Comments on TARRAGON & THYME: The Preserving PotPattypanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10533048669555871726noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703817848238285099.post-16995124958242431632017-07-31T07:23:07.182+01:002017-07-31T07:23:07.182+01:00Hi Tracy, they seem a little early round here so d...Hi Tracy, they seem a little early round here so don't know whether it was the effect of that really hot period and then all the rain since, but round here at least the season is moving ever so gradually into autumn which is confusing to say the least. However the hips and the haws are still green and we still not had the main crop of plums yet or greengages which make a lovely jam. Sometimes you have to go back to good sites. My mum and dad used to do that and I have also done that. I go collecting fir cones too for Christmas decorations but they also make good firelighters you can add a little old candle wax to make them take quicker or just put them on the top of the fire when it gets going and you get the lovely resinous scent released and scenting the room. Something for the kids to do collecting fir cones. Same with old woody herb stems save them up and put with some chopped kindling or dried twigs and the fire soon takes. Pattypan xPattypanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10533048669555871726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703817848238285099.post-4226798549892229532017-07-30T22:28:59.233+01:002017-07-30T22:28:59.233+01:00Oh wow your elderberries are well ahead of ours he...Oh wow your elderberries are well ahead of ours here. We're still very green! Same for the brambles. We don't get many here where we live so I might have to go to my old stomping ground to forage some! XTracy https://www.blogger.com/profile/05866363148112288322noreply@blogger.com