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Tag Archives: vegetables
Seed plans
Well, what I really want to know is, what are you doing about seeds this year? My favourite little Welsh seed company has been overwhelmed by orders, and due to social distancing in the seed packing sheds, can’t take any … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things
Tagged allotment, chitting, COVID-19, dad advice, dahlias, flowers, garden planning, gardening, grow your own, potatoes, sarah raven, saving seed, seed orders, seed planning, seed potatoes, seeds, vegetables
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Allotment Update
Okay, I think we’re all in need of an allotment update aren’t we?! Swiss Chard – middling. Growing but it’s getting a lot of attention from the pigeons. Unwanted attention from my point of view. Asparagus – good this year … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things
Tagged allotment, asparagus, beetroot, blackberries, broad beans, carrots, cornflowers, dahlias, fruit, gardening, grow your own, growing, marigolds, Monty Don, nasturtiums, new potatoes, perpetual onions, pigeons, pumpkins, rudbeckia, salad, slugs, strawberries, summer, summer holidays, sweet williams, sweetpeas, swiss chard, tomatoes, update, vegetables, Wales
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A single spear
I hope you all had a lovely Easter and got to enjoy some of the sunshine. We headed up to Yorkshire and sweltered in our woolly jumpers, entirely unprepared for the heatwave. We had a great time but at the … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things
Tagged allotment, asparagus, bank holiday, easter, gardening, grow your own, growing, heatwave, jumpers, seedlings, vegetables
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A frosty morning
It is a beautiful frosty morning; the type that we’d get at the beginning of November in Scotland, but is a novelty here, even in January. In the still air, plumes of steam rise from the flues of hard-working household … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged boilers, brassicas, cabbage moth, caterpillars, chard, flues, frost, January, lime, perpetual spinach, soil, spincah, vegetable patch, vegetables
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Pumpkin problems
Something has been eating our pumpkins! We had a prize specimen of which we were very proud. It was getting fatter by the day and turning a fabulous golden orange. But one day it had some teeth marks in it … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Growing things, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged anti-squirrel spray, gardening, illustration, pests, pumpkins, squirrels, vaseline, veg patch, vegetables, windowsill
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Blossom End Rot
Things have gone very wrong with our tomatoes. We’ve had tons but the majority are marked by the same brown rash. It’s called Blossom End Rot. It’s a physiological problem caused by a lack of calcium getting to the fruit. … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things
Tagged beef tomatoes, Blossom End Rot, calcium, cherry tomatoes, deficiency, gardening, green tomato chutney, tomatoes, vegetables, wet august
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Rain
Here is a little illustration I did of the greengrocers on the high street. They have a great range of local fruit and vegetables. I’m enjoying taking mealtime inspiration from the seasonal treats they have in stock. We had some … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged apples, beetroot, fruit, gardening, greengrocers, local, neighbours, peas, rain, seedlings, spinach, stokes, vegetables
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Inheriting
In a kind of lovely postscript to my last post, I received a brilliant email. I’ll quote a little bit of it: “…just a quick note to say we moved into your old house a month ago and adore your … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Growing things, Wildlife
Tagged caring, countryside, email, farm, garden, gardening, plants, vegetables
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A brace of pheasants
This pair appeared on our doorstep this week. Our next door neighbour has been beating for one of the local shoots and brought us home a souvenir. Little Owl took one look at them and said they made her sick. … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Countryside
Tagged beater, berries, bird feeder, blender, brace, mild autumn, pheasants, seeds, shooting, stew, vegetables
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