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Not lists of what to do or how to do things, but just sharing updates on what's done well, what hasn't and what I'm planning for the months to come. This picture from today of my little trug is pretty representative of what's happening in the vegetable garden at - [Embracing Autumn! Here are My Cosy Reading Recommendations](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/embracing-autumn-here-are-my-cosy-reading-recommendations/) - This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I may earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. And so it is with joy that we welcome the arrival of September and therefore, autumn if you're in the Northern Hemisphere. I have learnt over time that each season is to be embraced, - [Things to do in August: A Guide to Seasonal Homemaking](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/things-to-do-in-august-a-guide-to-seasonal-homemaking/) - After a slow and rather soggy start to 2024, the south of the UK has been full swing in summer for a few weeks now. 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My - [Updating Your Spring Style: Wardrobe Must-haves and Some Exciting News](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/updating-your-spring-style-wardrobe-must-haves-and-some-exciting-news/) - The weather hasn't really been playing ball for breaking out my spring/summer wardrobe but as we have our summer holiday booked and coming up quite soon, I've been adding some new pieces in the hopes that once the weather improves I can get plenty of wear from them. A slight challenge to this is, and - [How to Grow Potatoes: Spring in the Kitchen Garden](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/how-to-grow-potatoes-spring-in-the-kitchen-garden/) - If you're in the Northern hemisphere, now is the time to get seed potatoes in the ground so that they have time to mature by late summer/early autumn. With that in mind, I thought now would be a great time for a post about how to grow potatoes! 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Preserving seasonal harvests and abundance for use out of season, or in times of scarcity is the original batch cooking (the cellar cupboard full of winter squash and 20+ jars of marmalade is testament - [The Winter Garden - Pruning, Mulching and Dreaming](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/the-winter-garden-pruning-mulching-and-dreaming/) - The winter garden can seem a dull and bleak place, but careful planting can give interest even in the midst of winter. At the moment I am enjoying the hellebores, holly berries, scent of mahonia and witch hazel and watching the camellia buds swell fit to burst. In the vegetable garden, the spring cabbages are - [How to Find Your Style: Phase 1](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/how-to-find-your-style-phase-1/) - I honestly never thought I'd be writing this post. What can I possibly have to say about style that anyone would want to read? That is why I am so excited about sharing this with you because it marks a real turning point, not just in what I wear or buy, but in how I - [Happy New Year and Welcome](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/happy-new-year-and-welcome/) - To my readers and followers, happy new year and welcome to 2024, I hope to share another year of fun, ideas and inspiration from my home, my garden and my wardrobe with you. For new readers, happy new year and welcome to Modern Woman Old Soul! About Me I thought the new year would be - [Pumpkin Spice: How to Add Orange to Your Home and Wardrobe](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/pumpkin-spice-how-to-add-orange-to-your-home-and-wardrobe/) - Autumn is here and it's time to add orange to your home and wardrobe. - [Success with No-dig Spuds](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/success-with-no-dig-spuds/) - For the sheer, childlike delight of ferreting around in the warm damp earth for signs of success, there is nothing more satisfying than growing potatoes. Certainly for me, they have always been a simple and rewarding crop, worth growing every year partly because we love eating potatoes in all forms, but also because they reward - [Codling moth and toffee apple steamed pudding: Tree Following August 2023](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/codling-moth-and-toffee-apple-steamed-pudding-tree-following-august-2023/) - How to manage codling moth and use up windfall apples. - [How to Use Windfall Apples: Toffee Apple Steamed Pudding Recipe](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/how-to-use-windfall-apples-toffee-apple-steamed-pudding-recipe/) - How to make toffee apple steamed pudding with toffee sauce. Perfect for harvest time or windfall apples. - [How to Use Up a Courgette Glut: Crispy Courgette Bites](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/how-to-use-up-a-courgette-glut-crispy-courgette-bites/) - Simple recipe for cooking crispy courgette bites and making the most of summer vegetables or a glut. - [What's Growing in the July Vegetable Garden](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/whats-growing-in-the-july-vegetable-garden/) - This year, I haven't planned as successfully for succession growing of quick crops like lettuces and salads, and I'm late to the brassica party too. We had a lot of renovations going on inside the house, and a lot of work in the garden to get the space we needed to grow, and so actually - [How to be a Happier Homemaker](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/how-to-be-a-happier-homemaker/) - This post is not going to be about how you can clean more efficiently or meal plan for a month! Surprised? Well, I think there are a lot of myths in modern homemaking, and misconceptions about what homemaking really is, or is supposed to be, about. I hope this article gives you a few ideas - [For the Love of Trees: Tree Following July 2023](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/for-the-love-of-trees-tree-following-july-2023/) - July is always an exciting time for the trees in the garden. For the big apple tree, it marks the home straight to harvest as they are usually ripe by early August. This year looks to be a bumper crop. There was very little shedding and so I've helped it along by picking off any - [A Garden of Apples: Tree Following - May 2023](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/a-garden-of-apples-tree-following-may-2023/) - It's good to be back. An unintended hiatus while all my spare and not-so-spare time was taken up with work and finishing some major renovations to the house. I got the email about this month's tree following and after spending so much time in the garden, it was the nudge I needed to get back - [The June Drop: Tree Following June 2023](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/the-june-drop-tree-following-june-2023/) - June already! What weather we are having, such that I realised I was in fact meant to water my mature fruit trees as well as my new ones, and not simply rely on the rain. Oops! Our old apple tree fruits very early, at the end of July through the first week or two of - [The Best Chocolate Recipes to Make for Your Family](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/the-best-chocolate-recipes-to-make-for-your-family/) - Do you love chocolate? Does your family love chocolate? Well then you need to try the best chocolate recipes from around the web. (Please note, this post contains affiliate links. If you purchase via them, I may be paid a small commission, but the price you pay is unaffected). 1. Seriously Fudgy Homemade Brownies - - [Grow a Three Sisters Garden: How to Grow Beans, Pumpkins and Corn](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/grow-a-three-sisters-garden-how-to-grow-beans-pumpkins-and-corn/) - Tips on how to maximise room in your vegetable plot and grow a Three Sisters garden. - [How to do laundry: Don't let the washing overwhelm you](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/how-to-do-laundry-dont-let-the-washing-overwhelm-you/) - Learn how to do laundry and don't let the washing overwhelm you - [How to Make Sweet and Crisp Summer Shortbread](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/how-to-make-sweet-and-crisp-summer-shortbread/) - I love shortbread, and there's nothing better than homemade shortbread. This recipe makes wonderful sweet and crisp biscuits to fill the biscuit tin (if they don't all get eaten first!) This week I decided to make shortbread biscuits, partly as a way to make use of some of the beautiful lavender flowers and new rosemary - [The Summer Vegetable Garden](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/the-summer-vegetable-garden/) - It's been a while since I've given an update on the vegetable garden. The garden as a whole is more of a potager really, with fruit, herbs, vegetables and edible flowers secreted wherever there is a gap or just because I've grown too many plants and can't bear to discard any. So it is that - [Peas, turnips and new trees](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/peas-turnips-and-new-trees/) - This weekend we managed quite a lot of time in the garden, which was a nice surprise considering how ill we all were and the unpredictable weather. I find being outdoors in our garden invigorating even if I did need a long sit down with a cup of tea afterwards! Turnips My daughter had been - [Garlic and field beans](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/garlic-and-field-beans/) - A quick 20 mins in the garden to plant the last few handfuls of garlic cloves that didn't make it into the ground before Christmas. This year I'm growing Elephant garlic, which went in in November, Solent Wight (a third of which went in in November and the rest today), Provence White and Maddocks White, - [An introduction to tree following](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/an-introduction-to-tree-following/) - Today was a 'commute to the office' day, which takes me past St James' Park. There is a beautiful mature fig tree which in October was absolutely laden with figs and I took a photo of it this morning, sculptural and bare, save for a few figlets hanging on through the winter. I took part - [A day of planning and cooking](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/a-day-of-planning-and-cooking/) - The first day of February, and it looked almost springlike. The snowdrops at the foot of our young copper beech hedge are in flower and it such a hopeful feeling. Other things in flower at the moment are the hellebores, mahonia, winter jasmine, sweetbox and some sweet violets. The rhubarb plants are also bursting forth, - [Worms, a warmer day and pie](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/worms-a-warmer-day-and-pie/) - Today the sun shone, and by happy coincidence I had a day off at home with my daughter. I showed her my allotment journal and she was so interested. It never takes much to get her into the garden and so we spent some time hunting for our favourite garden friends ... Worms! At the - [The weekend roundup](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/the-weekend-roundup/) - This weekend yielded much more gardening opportunity than I expected. Saturday we were out for the day with friends, mostly outside, and there was definitely a nip in the air! Sunday was a day for tasks. Husband tackled the hedging, moving some field roses, blackthorn and hazel to balance it out a little and transplanted - [Foggy, frosty tree following](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/foggy-frosty-tree-following/) - This morning the world was nearly white. The air and sky turned cloudy with fog, and the ground and grass dusted with icing sugar frost. The perfect day then to capture the winter silhouettes of my 2023 tree following trees. Last year I followed a black mulberry which is growing in a large pot on - [A New Week, A New Look](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/a-new-week-a-new-look/) - Modern Woman Old Soul has had a spring clean and a new coat of paint! Come and have a look around and read what's been going on at Modern Woman HQ. - [Pancake day, potatoes and potting on](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/pancake-day-potatoes-and-potting-on/) - Pancake day, or Shrove Tuesday, is embedded in UK cultural and culinary tradition. For me it's an interesting blend of my Canadian and English roots - the pancakes I make are definitely more in the North American style, always served alongside a bottle of real maple syrup (no, helpful shop assistant, golden syrup will NOT - [11 February 2023 - signs of life](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/11-february-2023-signs-of-life/) - What a joy to see the first of my seeds germinating. The onions were eager to get going, tiny little white and green strands unfurling before my eyes, and now four of the tomato 'Heinz' have sprouted within 24 hours. I always have to work hard not to dig around in the soil to check - [Tips for simple living - What to do in Winter](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/tips-for-simple-living-what-to-do-in-winter/) - So much has been forgotten about living simply, or slowly, with the assumption that new ways, more technology and spending money on a 'mod con' is the way to a better, happier life. In fact, just this year I saw an article titled 'January Blues? 25 things to buy to make yourself feel better'. I - [Comfort food - ribs and wings, and sticky ginger pudding](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/comfort-food-ribs-and-wings-and-sticky-ginger-pudding/) - It's cold here. For Greater London, it's very cold! That calls for winter food, something rib-sticking. Last night, Sunday, I decided on a twist on a traditional roast: baked BBQ ribs and hot sauce chicken wings, accompanied by roast potatoes and roasted sprouts, and steamed carrots. Sunday means pudding, and winter means hot sticky puddings. - [New Year - No Spend Challenge: How to get that frugal feeling](https://modernwomanoldsoul.com/new-year-no-spend-challenge-how-to-get-that-frugal-feeling/) - I'm nearly two weeks in to my New Year - No Spend Challenge and I can't wait to share with you how I'm getting on, and what I've learned so far. 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