Posted in fruit, grow your own food, herbs, vegetables on 16 July 2009 | 6 Comments »
since the sun came out (yesterday), I took some pictures for my annual picture tour of the veg patches.
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so, bed 9, with purple podded peas, woad, perpetual spinach, chard, PSB, swede and climbing French beans.
The fruit bed, which has blackcurrants. red currants, and gooseberries, but since it is [...]
Posted in grow your own food, herbs, house and home, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables on 28 September 2008 | 2 Comments »
Another gloriously hot and sunny day. This time I did not burn my face – put on my factor 30. Instead I burnt the back of my neck. I am just not prepared for burning so close to October!
At midday, I took a break from cutting wood, as it was hot, and sat in the [...]
Posted in chickens, fruit, grow your own food, herbs, home education, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods on 8 September 2008 | 2 Comments »
We resumed home ed today. That is to say we went back to the structured part of home education today, as we like to keep roughly in line with the school term times. We had a week extra, because we can.
Of course it is a nonsense to imply education was on hold during the ’summer holidays’, [...]
Posted in grow your own food, herbs, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables on 1 September 2008 | 6 Comments »
The garlic has been drying out in the sunroom, as the August weather wasn’t going to dry much out, and now I have plaited it.
Looks a lot better than last year’s effort, as this time I looked up how to do it, and thanks to michelles-garden blog for step by step instructions. I did skip [...]
Posted in grow your own food, herbs, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 23 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year we had missed the autumn planting time for garlic and so planted in spring, and we had a reasonable crop. This year we did a little trial, we planted in autumn, and spring, and by coincidence, some of the autumn planting got horse manure, the rest did not.
No surprise really, that the fertilized [...]
Posted in being greener, grow your own food, herbs, recipes, self-sufficiency, vegetables on 17 August 2008 | 6 Comments »
Worked out that we had a green dinner tonight – homemade spinach spaghetti, with homemade pesto sauce. I would give the recipes but both work out to be ‘until it looks right’ cooking.
For the pesto sauce, I picked ‘lots’ of basil, from my basil jungle in the greenhouse, and blended it with ’some’ pine nuts, [...]
Posted in grow your own food, herbs, recipes, self-sufficiency on 17 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
I finally got the hang of growing basil. It’s taken me years, and eventually, I worked out what I was doing that was wrong.. I was trying to create pots of basil just as they sell in the supermarket. So I would sow the seed, they would germinate, become overcrowded and never really develop into [...]
