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Storytime with Father Christmas

19th November 2018 / / Comments Off on Storytime with Father Christmas

STORYTIME WITH FATHER CHRISTMAS!

Ho- ho- hope you can join us for this very special ‘Storytime with Father Christmas‘ at Mill View Garden Centre and Coffee Shop.

Listen to Father Christmas share a magical winter’s story, which will encapsulate your child’s imagination just days before Christmas! In addition to this, your child will also receive a cookie, a carton of juice (or water), and a wrapped gift to take home.

All adults and parents will receive 10% off any beverages purchased during the event.

Choose from two dates: Saturday 22nd December at 3pm or Sunday 23rd December at 3pm

Only £5 per child.

Advance booking is essential. Places are strictly limited.

Toasted Tea Cakes now available at the coffee shop

17th April 2017 / / Comments Off on Toasted Tea Cakes now available at the coffee shop

Now available at Mill View Garden Centre Coffee shop are new Ploughmans.

Easter opening times

12th April 2017 / / Comments Off on Easter opening times

Mill View Garden Centre opening times

Good Friday and Easter monday open as usual. Garden centre and coffee shop is closed easter  sunday.

We wish all our customers a happy easter.

New coffee shop menus

12th April 2017 / / Comments Off on New coffee shop menus

New menu's available

New menu's available now in the coffee shop, click on our coffee shop page to view.

HAVE A COFFEE & MAKE A CARD

16th January 2017 / / Comments Off on HAVE A COFFEE & MAKE A CARD

HAVE A COFFEE & MAKE A CARD

 Suitable for all levels, beginners are welcome.
You can find us on 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of EVERY month at this drop-in session for adults and older children.
£5 fee includes a hot drink. You will receive tuitionand products to makeyour own greetins card to take home with you.
Join Liz from 11am until noon, for an hour of Fun and Chat at Coffee Shop at Mill View Garden Centre

Classic Scones

30th September 2016 / / Comments Off on Classic Scones

Ingredients

350g self-raising flour, plus more for dusting
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
85g butter
, cut into cubes
3 tbsp caster sugar
175ml milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
squeeze lemon juice (see Know-how below)
beaten egg
, to glaze
jam and clotted cream, to serve

Classic Scones at Mill View Garden Centre

Method

Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Tip the flour into a large bowl with the salt and baking powder, then mix. Add the butter, then rub in with your fingers until the mix looks like fine crumbs. Stir in the sugar.

Put the milk into a jug and heat in the microwave for about 30 secs until warm, but not hot. Add the vanilla and lemon juice, then set aside for a moment. Put a baking sheet in the oven.

Make a well in the dry mix, then add the liquid and combine it quickly with a cutlery knife – it will seem pretty wet at first. Scatter some flour onto the work surface and tip the dough out. Dredge the dough and your hands with a little more flour, then fold the dough over 2-3 times until it’s a little smoother. Pat into a round about 4cm deep.

Take a 5cm cutter (smooth-edged cutters tend to cut more cleanly, giving a better rise) and dip it into some flour. Plunge into the dough, then repeat until you have four scones. By this point you’ll probably need to press what’s left of the dough back into a round to cut out another four. Brush the tops with beaten egg, then carefully place onto the hot baking tray.

Bake for 10 mins until risen and golden on the top. Eat just warm or cold on the day of baking, generously topped with jam and clotted cream. If freezing, freeze once cool. Defrost, then put in a low oven (about 160C/fan140C/gas 3) for a few mins to refresh.

Top 10 vegetables to grow over winter

30th September 2016 / / Comments Off on Top 10 vegetables to grow over winter

Now that the mower is about to be stored away for the winter months, I like to spend a couple of weekends getting my vegetable beds packed so that I have lots of fresh fodder to pick at over the chilly months ahead. Keeping your garden going through the winter gets you outside in the fresh air, allow you to exercise and can give you brilliant home-grown produce.

Up until the end of October there is a good range that can be sown to supplement the leeks, parsnips and sprouts that should already be settled in.

Except for garlic, onion sets, asparagus and cabbages, I sow in modules in my cold frame or greenhouse and plant out as mini-plants a few weeks later.

Alternatively, sow outside and cover with fleece or perforated polythene. And don't forget pests: slugs and snails are less of a threat now as they start to hibernate, but they can still ruin tender young seedlings.

OUR TOP WINTER VEGETABLES:

  • 1. Broad Beans
    I always autumn-sow broad beans. As well as having more time than I do in spring, it stops nutrients leaching through otherwise fallow soil, which allows its structure to deteriorate.They are ready a good month earlier than those sown in April, and they don’t get black fly. If the beans are in an exposed position and grow too tall (above a foot ) over winter, they can wave around and split just above ground level, so put in canes or sticks and string if necessary.
  • 2. Asparagus
    Asparagus varieties are now available for autumn planting, which helps them establish that bit quicker.
  • 3. Peas & Shoots
    For a late spring crop, it’s worth trying sowing seeds now, especially in mild areas. If you sow direct into the ground, plant them one inch deep and relatively closely at about one inch apart, to make up for a higher loss rate.

    Plant in groups of three lines all 12in apart to form thick rows, and make each thick row 18in apart.

  • 4. Garlic
    This is the easiest crop to grow. Plant the cloves individually to a depth of 2.5in deep on light soils and a lot less deep on heavy soils, but always a minimum of one inch below the surface.

    The distance should be about one foot apart each way. If you suffered from rust this year, in addition to rotation try hoeing in sulphate of potash in February/March.

  • 5. Onions, Spring Onions and Shallots
    There are quite a few varieties of onions from sets that can go in now. This is the easiest way to grow onions, and they can be harvested earlier on in the year.

    Electric is a good red set, Radar a good yellow and Shakespeare is a highly reliable white.

    Sow some spring onions now: White Lisbon Winter Hardy (from T&M) is a good one

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