Pickled shallots
It was a pleasant surprise to find how easy it is to pickle shallots. Top/tail and de-skin them, leave in salt water overnight. Then pack them into jars and pour […]
It was a pleasant surprise to find how easy it is to pickle shallots. Top/tail and de-skin them, leave in salt water overnight. Then pack them into jars and pour […]
Cutting back a lot of vine leaves today revealed a plenty of grapes coming along nicely; more than we realised we had. The bunch in the photo is a close […]
It’s a humble crop but it was pleasing to hang up most of this year’s onions and garlic today. They’re already part dry after a week on a drying shelf, […]
Reasonably pleased with the garlic harvest this year. Picked on 10th August and now drying off indoors, these were a short row of the popular Solent Wight variety. Although I […]
… and make way for more beetroot. Above is the last harvest of our Boltardy planting. This went into the keftedes on the cooking and eating page. In their place, […]
Things have grown so tall this year that we had to put together some quite high covers over the raised beds. Some people do a brilliant job with plumbing pipe […]
This was way back in March, but shows the technique (if you can call it that) I use for making raised beds. The ones on the left were built last […]
We’ve been lucky enough to get three onion harvests like the one above. These are Stuttgarter Stansfield, grown from sets. Some are medium-small, but all appear to be solid and […]
Man there’s been some rubbish compost on sale this year. Big brands as well. I wonder whether it was the cold, wet weather that dominated earlier in the year, stopping […]
Grew some big turnips for the first time this year. Last year we just grew small autumn ones (Tiny Pal), but this year an early planting of Atlantic variety brought […]
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