Note – 2026-01-23 11:50
Bumper very colourful chili crop this year. We ended up with 4 full dehydrating trays that are currently drying.
Tag: selfsufficiency
Note – 2025-03-29 10:20
Spring has arrived so it's time to fire up the sun oven 🌞. Today we are slow cooking a traditional meal here in the Alpujarras ... "papas al pobre" a tasty mix of potatoes and green peppers
Note – 2024-11-24 14:29
After a month of marinating some of our lemons in alcohol, today I completed the final steps and added sugar water before bottling. Home made Limoncello. Salud!
Note – 2024-09-13 06:36
We don't ever regret utilising and repurposing the swimming pool as a greenhouse. I'm not much of a water baby and swimming pools take a lot of maintenance. How much better to use that water to grow f...
Note – 2024-08-30 13:38
Nothing better on a hot summer Spanish day than home made cold Gazpacho soup containing vegetables from the garden - cucumber, tomatoes, garlic, cayenne peppers & onion. The bread was home made too. S...
Note – 2024-05-24 09:14
It's Friday and it's also watering day. Making the most of it before the summer
Note – 2023-08-31 14:17
An amazingly fruity and mind blowing Sriracha salsa prepared by our best cheffie friend, Richard, from our own chillies, peppers and tomatoes. So good to have someone who really knows how to use our l...
Note – 2023-08-21 13:53
Today's pepper harvest from the greenhouse (converted swimming pool 😀 ). Going to freeze this lot into bags ready for the winter
Note – 2023-06-28 11:16
First harvest of green peppers. They smell and feel so fresh. Freezing some and maybe having fajitas tonight!
Note – 2023-06-16 09:32
Today's greenhouse harvest. Guess it's a Lettuce, Cucumber and Basil salad 😂
Note – 2023-06-12 14:32
Well our little swimming pool to greenhouse conversion seems to be starting to pay off. The tomato plants are almost my height (1.8m) and we are waiting patiently for them to ripen. The cucumbers are...
Note – 2023-05-14 09:09
3 weeks ago we put a small polytunnel in our swimming pool. Did it to improve water efficiency in a smaller area. Yesterday evening we ate our first lettuce and the rest of the crops are shooting up....
Note – 2023-03-06 09:02
Delighted to finally have our Solar Hot Water system installed. Together with our solar panels we can now produce about 95% of our annual electricity needs.