Heaps of Harvests
..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 […]
Tag Archives: strawberries
It’s all growing rather well …
Priority One during this last week of high temperatures was potting on various things which were nearly bursting out of propagators, or which were outgrowing their initial small pots. A […]
Tutti Frutti
It’s easy to forget about fruit. Certainly the fruits which grow in my garden seem to survive and produce with very little intervention. I know crops are better if you […]
A purple thing goin’ on
The local Council round here has a habit of letting various areas of land get overgrown with weeds before springing into late mowing action. That means every May there’s a […]
Healthy Returns
After nearly five months in the ground, the maincrop potatoes were ready to come out this weekend. I do like the annual treasure hunt of fishing through the soil for […]
From Bees to Peas
It was a pleasure to pick the first peas of the year today. This Douce Provence plant has overwintered so is producing pods a good month or two before spring […]
Squash survival
The resilience of some plants never ceases to amaze. Many weeks ago I accidentally snapped the delicate stem of a young squash plant. Just a little of the stalk was […]
Peas please!
Yesterday I was admiring the progress of the Karmen red onions which went in the ground only five weeks ago. Their tall green shoots indicate a strong root system developing […]
New varieties
This straggly mess is actually some carefully raised seedlings of some varieties which I’m growing for the first time. The most interesting to me is the Giant Red Celery in […]
