I’ve been a little busy and the garden has been slightly neglected the last week or so. We’re still eating veggies from it most nights but I’ve been trying to turn a blind eye to the weeds, the funny black aphids and anything going to seed because once I start I know it’ll be a big job. [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Harvest Tuesday
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Garden tidy up
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve spent the last couple of days tidying up in some of the older beds. It’s easy to keep the new beds looking great as they’re new but the older ones have plenty of weeds, are set up a little strangely and dont have the ‘new factor’ to them! The back beds are pretty well [...]
Salad anyone?
Posted in Uncategorized on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I only harvested the mesculun patch yesterday and spent the morning at the produce market only to return to a garden full of lettuce!! What’s going on? Apparantly its been the coldest October in 60 some years so the plants have all been sulking but this bit of warmth and wet has got them all [...]
Surprise harvest
Posted in Uncategorized on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As is always the way when I go to the garden centre I’m tempted by things that I really dont have anywhere to put. Today it was capsicums and eggplants. I’ve sown both of these from seed on numerous occassions in the past 3 months and have not even one plant to show for it. [...]
The growing has started
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged mesculun, parsnips on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How amazing the garden looks after couple of sunny days and a few light showers. Plants that have been sat in the beds for months without even a glimmer of growth have doubled in size in the last few days! Its fun to walk around the garden in the morning and see the changes. I [...]
Little Leeks
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love small crops that dont need much room that I can squeeze in where I find a little bit of spare earth. Leeks are one of my favourite vegetables and loving cooking as I do am partial to a baby vegetable of any kind. I’m growing these little beauties in a space between some zucchini, snowpeas and beans and by [...]
Dinner tonight
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A friend I’ve known since school stayed with us tonight. I’ve been trying to get her to start growing her own veggies in the garden of her first house but she’s yet to be convinced so I thought what would be a better way than to feed her some of my own. We had broad beans, snow [...]
