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: August 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 […]
