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Category Archives: Freezing

Heaps of Harvests

20/08/2017by wdouglas14 4 Comments

..the joy tempered only by my enrolment in the caterpillar calamity club You could be forgiven for thinking my garlic plants were dead a couple of weeks ago, with their […]

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Freezing, Growing, Own recipes, Soil

Purple Mini Trees

08/08/2016by wdouglas14 3 Comments

There’s a thing called Tree Kale: a group of tall, sturdy perennial brassicas, big enough to be considered trees and crowned by large edible leaves. They’re not often seen here […]

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Freezing, Growing, Uncategorized

Defence Mechanisms

02/07/2016by wdouglas14 Leave a comment

I’m trying to grow lemongrass again this year. Last year’s attempt floundered when a pot of young stalks didn’t survive the lower over-winter temperatures in a mini greenhouse. I’ll bring […]

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Freezing, Growing, Uncategorized

Heinous Horseradish

20/12/2015by wdouglas14 9 Comments

Or The plant that knew no boundaries … The unseasonal high temperatures – 12C with five days to go until Christmas – left me no excuse to delay the inevitable […]

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Freezing, Growing, Own recipes, Uncategorized
Nero di Toscana kale

Dry, freeze, eat, prepare

30/09/2015by wdouglas14 Leave a comment

Oh let me assure you Mr. Bond, I intend to control the world’s supply of rosemary.. I would post a photo of the rosemary plant in my herb bed but […]

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Drying, Freezing, Growing, Own recipes, Public recipes
Some of today's Sugarsnax 54 carrots

Coming In and Going Out

02/08/2015by wdouglas14 3 Comments

It was a big day in the garden today: after lifting various matured crops I was finally able to move the tomato plants out of the plastic tents and into […]

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Freezing, Growing
A good gooseberry harvest from a humble (cheap!) plant

Freezer Filling

26/07/2015by wdouglas14 Leave a comment

Despite it being the height of summer this weather hasn’t been helping the garden through what should be its period of peak productivity. Temperatures are lower than they should be […]

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Drying, Freezing, Growing
Colourful trio of beetroots

Harvest Time

27/06/2015by wdouglas14 2 Comments

For me, this is one of the best times of the vegetable growing year. Root crops have been rapidly swelling and there is so much lovely food to pick and […]

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Freezing, Growing
Ripe grapes ready for picking

on the grapevine

16/11/2014by wdouglas14 Leave a comment

OK birds, you’ve had your share.. Watching blackbirds and robins eating my grapes in recent days spurred me into the annual vine harvest. Working along the fence where the vines […]

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Freezing, Growing, Storing
Tomatoes ready for baking

Tomato Time

14/09/2014by wdouglas14 Leave a comment

With four varieties on the go, and a couple of weeks of nice weather, the tomatoes are coming in thick and fast now. Above, just under three pounds of Red […]

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Freezing, Own recipes

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