It just seemed to sneak up on us – I suppose the good weather making us forget it was autumn, then suddenly it’s November. And blustery and raining.
I’ve stripped the last of the tomato plants, and picked my last tomatoes – a few more batches of roasted tomato sauce for the freezer, and some jars [...]
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november
Posted in general wittering, self-sufficiency, vegetables on 2 November 2009 | 3 Comments »
confused garden
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, vegetables on 19 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
My garden is confused. First there is a cold snap, then the autumn went warm, and now it is cold again.
The roses are out in full flower, and they look good mixed with the Michaelmas daisies.
One of my purple sprouting broccoli is sprouting. and ready to eat… admittedly it is the early variety, Rudolph, but [...]
crab
Posted in grow your own food, recipes, vegetables on 15 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We three love crab, and I bought one from the fish van. Crab is great, tasty, sweet, low fat, and sustainable. They are caught locally (well ok not actually on Dartmoor, but fairly locally anyway), and I bought it from a small independent trader (aka the fish van). The are caught in a way that [...]
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 [...]
equinox and foraging
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods on 22 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today is the autumn equinox, and despite the pleasant warm weather we have been happening – there does seem to be a seasonal change going on. the leaves are changing on the trees, we are nearing the end of harvesting our veg, we have culled animals for our stores (well freezers), and the foraging is [...]
the pigs are gone
Posted in grow your own food, home education, livestock, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables on 21 September 2009 | 4 Comments »
Loading them up was a little difficult – our cunning arrangement of outer gate meets inner gate, forming new path to the waiting trailer worked a treat, and not having been fed before they were well up for a few scattered pig nuts, but the ramp of the trailer put them off. Note to self: [...]
sweetcorn
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 16 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been muttering lately that it wasn’t worth growing sweet corn – the full size kind, in this country. It’s always touch and go that it will ripen in time, it gets blown down, the slugs climb up it and eat the silks.. it takes a lot of space and isn’t worth it.
What is worthwhile. [...]
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 [...]
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