Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged blight, vegetables on 31 May 2008 | No Comments »
2007 was a blight year, in the UK. for gardeners this means blight hits your potato and tomato crops.. and did it ever. The books say that greenhouse tomatoes will be safe, but the blight got into both my greenhouses. We were lucky with the spuds, and did get the crop in, albeit on the [...]
Posted in general wittering on 30 May 2008 | No Comments »
I just stepped outside to release a mouse the cat had so kindly brought in. Not so bad when they are dead, even better when he eats them, but when he brings them in to play.. they usually hide in the house and end up staying. I had to catch it.
Wasn’t all bad, in the [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 29 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s all the rage apparantly… not that I go to restaurants with stars or celebratory chefs - but I saw it on Gardener’s World once, so it must be true… (!)
Micro salad, or micro greens are seedlings. Think cress on a posher scale. Bit of nonsense if you ask me.. waste of seeds.. then again.. [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged sheep on 28 May 2008 | No Comments »
The ‘cull ewe’ we were offered is now back from the slaughterhouse/butchers minus its personality, and in neat packages. It looks pretty good, but with a fat layer of.. well.. fat. To be expected. We have liver, heart, two breasts, 4 leg joints, 4 shoulder joints some miscellaneous bits and about 7 meals worth of [...]
Posted in general wittering, house and home, tagged flowers on 27 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
There’s a lot of talk about the complete lack of bees.. and how the world will come to an end without them. Which is slightly odd given that my garden is heaving with bees at the moment. The garden is looking particularly nice and cottagey - no thanks to us as we have pretty much [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 26 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
Having spent the whole of yesterday socialising, we found today hard to start.. particularly as it was raining and blustery, and spent the day feeling tired and jaded.. and there wasn’t even alcohol involved!
Did potter about in the greenhouse though, potting on lettuce seedlings.. have some lovely lettuces ready for cutting in the greenhouse border. Planted [...]
Posted in make it yourself, tagged knitting, socks on 25 May 2008 | No Comments »
The rains finally came, though once again the forecasters got it wrong and it was pretty good today. However, raining means evening knitting instead of gardening, and I finally finished these lurid socks. The yarn is from colinette - jitterbug. What is not clear from the photo is how the pattern spiralled around the socks. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 24 May 2008 | No Comments »
The three sisters method of planting is a great idea and many people are trying it out. The idea is that you plant sweetcorn, climbing beans and a member of the squash family all in the same bed. The beans fix nitrogen into the soil, the sweetcorn provides a climbing support and the squash covers [...]
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