Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, vegetables, wild foods, tagged vegetables on 22 June 2008 | No Comments »
sunshine again yay! (see how fickle I can be? well the ground is soaked and the water butts are full). Had a nice pottering sort of day.
Starting with a lie in - the joys of these long summer days, there is still enough daylight - in fact it’s light until 10pm..
had a coffee, chat and [...]
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, home education, self-sufficiency, vegetables on 22 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
ok enough rain already… The longest day of the year, and it pretty much rained all of it. We undertook ‘belligerent gardening’, as we call it.. which is gardening in the pouring rain. Dug out last year’s beet spinach which has bolted, and planted more PSB.
We did drink elderflower champagne at lunch time though, so [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods, tagged fruit, vegetables on 20 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last year we had to fight the slugs off the beetroot, this year the slugs are not as big a problem, so the birds have been pecking and eating them instead. Solution - netting. But we practically lost a whole row of beetroot before the nets went down. On the other upside, the wild rocket [...]
Posted in grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables on 18 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
The water butts on both greenhouses were empty, as we have had sunny weather for some weeks, and with the new water meter, we have spent the last 2 days carrying water from the huge water butt.. which is a walk all the way up the lane, carrying watering cans. This is the sort of [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods, tagged vegetables, blight on 17 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
couldn’t resist any longer and dug our first potatoes today. Little on the small side, had to lift a couple to get a meals worth. Very nice. Valor - which also have very pretty pink flowers too. Heard of blight appearing in some gardens in Cornwall, which is only the next country over. So far [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 17 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
and we did. The first of our mange tout are ready, and we had a taster.. only about 8 each, but enough. picked steamed eaten. Fresh as can be. Lovely. Must grow more next year.
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged sheep, lambs on 15 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger
I first read this quote in John Seymours Self Sufficiency (although haven’t come across [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 14 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have a volunteer. That is a pumpkin seed that did its own thing in the greenhouse border. We stripped the soil out last autumn and replaced with compost, and in it were some seeds from the giant pumpkin we grew a couple of years ago. It benefited from the watering of a nearby tomato [...]
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