Wet and Drying
How it must look to my neighbours is anybody’s guess. On weekday evenings I can frequently be found out in the garden in complete darkness, fumbling about with a flashlight […]
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Late season flourishes
Broccoli – what a waste of time. Oh, hang on… A while ago I more or less wrote off the broccoli I’d carefully tried to grow since the spring. The […]
Dry, freeze, eat, prepare
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 […]
Sun and spices
As noon approached earlier today, the skies cleared and a mathematical equation formed in my mind: Freshly picked veg + pizza base from cupboard + table & chair on back […]
From plot to plate
After a couple of weeks away, returning to the vegetable garden this weekend was a mix of anticipation and trepidation. The soaker hoses had done their job well and more […]
Aiming High
In one of the large beds today I planted some part-grown Castandel beans. This is a delicious variety of french bean, which has become one of my favourite vegetables. Some […]
Moving outdoors
With the weather that bit warmer now, I took the cucumber plunge today and moved five plants out of their pots and into one of the raised beds. Notoriously temperamental, […]
New shoots
After eight weeks of growing their sprouts indoors, the potatoes finally went into the ground today. I had left a polythene sheet over the target raised bed for most of […]
Sowing & planting
Broad beans, spring onions, fertiliser, weeds and rain. That was today’s agenda for the raised beds. A bit of weeding in the onion patch revealed that the overwintering sets have […]
Seasonal Snow
We had a great fall of snow in North West England last night, the evening of Boxing Day. A good layer quickly built up and coated the veg garden at […]
