This is the first year I have grown physalis. The plants have been a bit late in getting their act together.. or perhaps I should have planted them earlier…So far we had just had one or two ripen which have been scoffed when the greenhouse was being watered, but now there are more coming.
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physalis
Posted in fruit, grow your own food on 10 October 2009 | 5 Comments »
productive weekend
Posted in fruit, general wittering, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables on 4 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
We always seem to be overloading ourselves with jobs to be done, always running to catch up. So we decided to calm things down little, and arrange things so each weekend or evening we have the chores to do, then just a couple of objectives, then after that do whatever we like. One of the [...]
kiwi fruit
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, recipes on 3 October 2009 | 7 Comments »
Some years ago, at our old house, we planted a couple of Kiwi plants. There was a nice warm south-west facing wall (- well it belonged to the neighbour’s shed, but they gave us permission) just asking for something to be grown against it. We were particularly amused to buy kiwi fruit plants as our [...]
pressing again
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, wild foods on 17 September 2009 | 6 Comments »
Hot, hot day. This evening, we pressed the last of our apples – well the last of the ones set aside for pressing – we still have some stored for puddings etc.
Five of these blue trays (available free from greengrocers!) full of apples, previously frozen, made sixteen litres of juice.
We drank one with, yes, another [...]
harvesting, preserving
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables on 12 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
It must come to an end soon – all the harvesting, and storing of the produce. We seem to spend many an evening slicing , blanching, pickling, pressing, pasteurizing, packing, freezing, stoning, chutneying, jamming, straining, bottling… you get the picture.
And all the time we tell each other.. just have to get over this hump, soon [...]
bluster
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged vegetables, sheep, fruit, pigs, Berkshire pigs on 1 September 2009 | 3 Comments »
Really blustery today, but thankfully dry. It did mean we lost some of the damson crop – the eight was reduced to five! – I harvested what was left and himself is munching them every time he passes. Picked the sunset apples – not a bad haul for their first year. We shall have those [...]
apple picking party
Posted in fruit, general wittering, grow your own food, recipes on 31 August 2009 | 4 Comments »
We spent the afternoon picking apples and damsons, along with other friends and relatives. not our fruit – we have already picked our apples, and our damsons – well we only have about eight on both our trees. Early days yet..
But this annual event, followed by a meal, is a very pleasant way to spend [...]
apple and blackberry cordial
Posted in books, fruit, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency on 17 August 2009 | 5 Comments »
So, I was thinking to myself, now it is the jamming and preserving end of the year, that a cook can never have too many books on the subject. Not that I am very good at all at following other people’s recipes – but I like to flick through and be inspired by ideas etc, [...]
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