Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods on 1 June 2008 | No Comments »
June is a month that can bring a little despondency to me. June is the end of the sowing and planting phase, well most of it, but before the harvesting phase. By now I am a little fed up with the sowing and planting bit anyway, and to top it off, June is the month [...]
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 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 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 grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 21 May 2008 | No Comments »
Well, the builders have done fixing the gutters.. just need some rain now to see if they actually work…
and the chimney sweep has come, observed that we are clearly burning a fair bit of pallet and scrap wood, along with logs, and declared we should carry on doing what we are doing as we have [...]
Posted in being greener, grow your own food, house and home, livestock, sheep, vegetables, tagged sheep on 20 May 2008 | No Comments »
This is turning out to be a busy week, and it’s only Tuesday ! This morning I went ‘along for the ride’ to take the cull ewe/mutton we have been offered to the slaughterhouse. Having not done this before, I thought this would be a great opportunity to be shown the ropes. Wasn’t that bad [...]
Posted in grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 19 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
in our house anyway, as we opened the first batch of elderflower champagne.
Hot and sunny day, and what time I had after home ed I stupidly wasted having a debate via the internet… but did turn things around before the day was done, had that first glass of summer with himself , when he got [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 18 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
The area outside the greenhouse looks like a garden centre - as all the plants raised are coming out to harden off. Now is the time of year when we wonder if we dare to plant.. or will there be another frost.. all a gamble to get ahead or lose. The borlotties which I sowed [...]
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