The days are long, the sky is blue and the temperatures are soaring. It is the perfect combination for the veggie garden. I am seeing a harvest and am completely delighted. There were a few points in time when it didn’t look like I would get there and while it isn’t as prolific as I would have liked due to the lateness of the planting … Continue reading Food in Hand
Of late our diet has been a long way from what we are normally accustomed to. To start with we were kitchen-less and it seems to have been for a very long time. We started out in the balmy long evenings of late summer or was it early autumn? The details have been lost in the mists of time. But I do know it was … Continue reading Digging up dinner.
Not a bad haul considering there is only 20 days until winter! We have butternut squash, peppers and chillies, more beans than I know what to do with, three tiny zucchini, carrots, kale, broccoli, rhubarb and the last of the tomatoes. Come again soon – this autumn weather is just too balmy to be stuck inside, I must try to do more gardening. Sarah the … Continue reading I told you there was a lot of stuff in my garden….
…well maybe I’ll throw in a couple more rainbow beets as not all the colours have come out, but aside from that everything in the greenhouse is all there is going to be this season. Oh except for the beans and the corn which will be sown directly once the risk of frost has past – and I’ve weeded their beds. Oh and the successional … Continue reading Well that’s it – the last seeds have been sown.
With the new season rapidly approaching, and seed raising just a few weeks from commencing with the most sensitive peppers and chillies being the first seeds to be immersed in warm damp soil, I thought I’d better sort things out. I started by browsing seed catalogues and online seed lists to see what was new and what I wanted to grow, but then realised as … Continue reading Is Two Hundred and Ten seed packets too many?
