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 […]
Monthly Archives: Aug 2013
Grapes revealed
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 […]
Hung out to dry
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, […]
Garlic incoming!
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 […]
Move over beetroot
… 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, […]
Back of the net
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 […]
Bed time
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 […]
Knowing ones onions
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 […]
Lousy compost
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 […]
Turnips for freezing
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 […]
