Hampton Court is always a great place to pick up ideas for widening your veg-growing horizons: but this year they’ve surpassed themselves. I thought I was doing pretty well this year what with my sweet potatoes, yacon and tomatilloes. But that’s nothing to the exotica on display in the Home Grown exhibit, right at the [...]
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Hampton Court 2010: The wierd and the wonderful
Posted in Fruit, Shows, Unusual veg, tagged amaranth, amorphophallus konjac, Fruit, Hampton Court, heritage varieties, kaffir lime, medlars, okra, skirret, strawberry spinach on July 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Hampton Court Flower Show 2010: Veggie heaven
Posted in Fruit, Herbs, Shows, Unusual veg, tagged Hampton Court, courgettes, brassicas, Fruit on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Never mind all that Chelsea razzmatazz and flummery. If you grow veg, the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show is where it’s at. The show has always been where the GYO movement has found its natural home: probably as much to do with the timing as anything else, since there’s not much growing by Malvern (April), [...]
Playing gooseberry
Posted in Fruit, Pruning, tagged cordon gooseberries, Fruit, gooseberries, summer pruning, training on June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Now normally by this time of year I’m enjoying the first fresh fruit of the season (if you don’t count rhubarb, which is technically a vegetable, and forced strawberries, which are cheating). But this year my gooseberries, growing along a fence by the path that leads down the garden, have been puzzlingly conspicuous by their [...]
Honeyed words
Posted in Fruit, tagged Fruit, honeyberry on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I do like it when you get home from picking up the kids, or a frantic potato-planting session on the allotment, or racing around trying to fit in work, the shopping, picking up the cold frame lights you’ve just had glazed and remembering to phone someone’s mum about that sleepover all in the space of [...]
Forcing the issue #2
Posted in Container veg growing, Fruit, Greenhouse growing, Propagation, tagged containers, forcing, frost, Fruit, strawberries, weather, winter on February 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What a stop-start spring this has been. A week of watery sunshine got me all Tigger-like and bouncy in anticipation that finally, at last, the winter was over. Weeds were weeded, beds were forked over, edges were trimmed. Now it’s minus-goodness-knows-what at night again, blistering cold wind and sleeting rain all day. The allotment is under water, [...]
Seeing the trees for the wood
Posted in Fruit, Pruning, tagged apples, chickens, time management on December 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Oh dear. This is a bit of my garden not many people get to see. Well, nobody, actually, if I can help it. It’s my group – orchard is perhaps too optimistic a word – of four apple trees, two Cox’s Orange Pippins and two Bramley’s Seedlings in the chicken run at the bottom, and [...]
Currant affairs
Posted in Fruit, Pruning, tagged blackcurrants, weather, winter on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With half my plot all but under water what with torrential rain and flash floods in the last couple of weeks, and the other half under sheets of black plastic (partly in an optimistic attempt to keep out said flash floods), I can no longer sink a spade into my soil without hearing the dreary [...]
Global warming in action
Posted in Allotments, Fruit, Harvesting, tagged global warming, watering, weather, winter on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ah – that’s better! The rain has come again. All around me are grumbling happily like the good Brits they are, and I’m splashing about in the puddles with a silly grin on my face and a wet sock (one of my wellies has a hole in it at the moment). It’s a weight off my mind [...]
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