It’s not all veg round here, you know. Actually there are quite a lot of flowers in my patch. Of course there are all the flowers that come with veg: yellow tomato and cucumber blossoms, purple and white potato flowers, and the lovely red and white fountains of flowers climbing up my beanpoles. But I’ve [...]
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Veg plot flowers
Posted in Allotments, Greenhouse growing, Other stuff, tagged beans, carrots, companion planting, flowers, marigolds, nasturtiums, onions, pests, sweetpeas, tomatoes on July 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Hampton Court 2010: Magic mushrooms
Posted in Other stuff, Unusual veg, tagged Hampton Court, mushrooms on July 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I couldn’t leave the delights of this year’s Hampton Court without saying a little bit about what I discovered tucked away in a shady patch under a rickety old lean-to in a forgotten little corner of the Home Grown exhibit. Most people were walking past without noticing it – mind you that may have been [...]
Progress reports
Posted in Allotments, Greenhouse growing, Other stuff, Soil care, sowing, tagged beans, blackcurrants, carrots, cooking, forcing, green manure, potatoes, seed, slugs, sowing, strawberries, time management, weather on April 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Spring has sprung, the grass is high, and I’m just pausing for breath before the next manic session of seed-sowing (tender veg this month). So while I’ve got a cup of tea to hand and my feet up on the potting bench I thought I’d take stock a little and see how all those many, [...]
Safeguarding the future
Posted in Other stuff, Unusual veg, tagged beans, heritage varieties, kale, peas, seed, sowing on February 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I’ve fulfilled a long-held ambition this year and put my name down for the Heritage Seed Library. This remarkable band of mainly volunteers have taken it upon themselves, very nearly single-handedly, to save all the vegetable varieties they can. The majority of the veg we grow are registered under the 1973 Seed (National List of Varieties) [...]
Bird feed
Posted in Other stuff, tagged birds, chickens, pests, weather, wildlife, winter on January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Poor old Blossom. She does hate the snow. All her favourite scratching spots have disappeared, and dust baths are out of the question. Little wriggly insects are tucked away out of reach and she can’t even peck at the grass as we haven’t seen that since before Christmas. Blossom is the last of a long [...]
Something for a rainy day
Posted in Other stuff, tagged blogging on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had a happy day in the veg-growing blogosphere while the rain pours down outside and the gales buffet my window. I’ve had the perfect excuse to visit all my favourite virtual gardens where I spend time procrastinating, prevaricating and generally playing around instead of doing anything particularly productive: Jo at The Good Life was [...]
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