St. Swithun’s day if thou dost rain For forty days it will remain St. Swithun’s day if thou be fair For forty days ’twill rain nae mair.’ Whether you’re weather watching today or whether you’re not -Happy St Swithun’s Day. May your next forty days be filled with sunshine – even if it’s of the [...]
Archive for the ‘veg patch’ Category
St Swithun’s Day
Posted in feasts and festivals, veg patch, tagged St Swithun's Day on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The view from here
Posted in family time, monthly jobs, veg patch, tagged snow on January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I managed a quick visit to the allotment this morning to pull some leeks and parsnips for lunch and take in the view before trudging home for a steaming cup of coffee. Meanwhile the apprentices had another snowball fight. Now I am happily feeding the fire with logs and pouring over the latest Marshalls catalogue [...]
Beetroot
Posted in medicine chest and cleaning cupboard, veg patch, tagged beetroot on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the reason I’m glad I planted beetroot in the plot this year. I’m not a lover of beetroot in huge quantities – too many beetroot pickled to within an inch of their lives offered up as a child I think. I hate them in soup, can tolerate them in beetroot brownies or roasted [...]
Gluts
Posted in pudding club, veg patch, tagged cakes, courgettes, gluts on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We arrived back from our holiday at the weekend to a lot of weeds and pounds and pounds of courgettes and carrots. Somehow I still don’t think I’ve got the hang of successional sowing. So the last few days have passed in a haze of chopping, freezing and cooking in bulk. And of course every [...]
Be nice to nettles
Posted in drinks, veg patch, wildlife gardens, tagged nettles on May 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Hooray! It’s Be Nice to Nettles Week. This is one week when I can legitimately pretend that the large nettle patch on my new allotment is by design rather than default. Actually there are rather too many of them at the moment but I intend to keep a patch near the compost where I can brew some Nettle [...]
Slow food
Posted in veg patch, tagged asparagus, companion planting, Slow Down London Festival, slow living on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A trip to London recently flagged up the Slow Down London festival which is to take place from April 24th to May 4th this year. It is a new project to inspire Londoners to improve their lives by slowing down to do things well, rather than as fast as possible. One of the goals is to create longer-term networks [...]
Bramble jam…
Posted in veg patch, tagged allotments, roottrainers, sweet peas on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t mind the odd bramble as I am particularly fond of blackberry jam. But this week bramble jam has seemed somewhat less attractive.. It has been one of those frustratingly unproductive weeks that crop up from time to time. Last Saturday after spending a couple of hours hanging around a football pitch, one of the prerequisites of [...]
Garden alchemy – turning ‘straw’ into ‘gold’
Posted in veg patch, tagged allotments, potagers on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Feast your eyes on my new plot. What can you see? The bramble patch and the abundance of couch grass? The derelict picnic bench perhaps? Or is your sinking heart thinking about the hours of back-breaking digging that lie ahead? I can see the potential for this…….. Watch this space.
