easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in gardening on Jul 24th, 2010
This is my entire crop of first early potatoes - a 14cm plant pot almost-full. Okay, so that’s not very many potatoes from four plants, but there were dozens more teeny-tiny ones clinging to the roots. Skycarrots reliably informs me that if I’d been better at watering them, the tiny potatoes would have been much [...]
Posted in gardening on Jul 7th, 2010
I’ve been a teensy bit busy lately, and that’s meant I haven’t had much time for blogging. Plenty to blog about, but no time to sit down and write about it! I haven’t had much time to pay attention to the garden this week, and I’ve mostly been watering it in the dark, so somehow [...]
Posted in gardening on Jun 24th, 2010
Today I found out what a potato flower looks like.
If only I could remember which varieties I planted, I could find out the right time to dig them up!
(Seriously… how do you know when your potatoes are ready to harvest?!)
Posted in gardening on Jun 6th, 2010
The first (almost) ripe strawberry of the season!
I have seven strawberry plants tucked into this little terracotta planter. There are several different varieties, but I didn’t manage to keep the right labels with the right plants, so I don’t know which they all are.
This one’s definitely one of the little alpine strawberries though. It’s very [...]
Posted in gardening on May 12th, 2010
When I came out of hospital I assumed that most of my vegetable seedlings wouldn’t have survived. I forgot to ask Paul to water everything for me, and although he did take care of the pots in the garden the ones in the Shed were left to their own devices. So you can imagine my [...]
Over the weekend Skycarrots hosted a harvest festival!
A small group of us got together and brought masses of food and drinks that we’d grown, foraged, brewed and baked. All of the salad and vegetables were from Sarah’s allotment, with the addition of my cherry tomatoes. The big square pie is pumpkin and feta, and the [...]
Posted in gardening on Aug 4th, 2009
Contrary to the label on the box, this is in fact Real Food, from the MERL vegetable patch!
The Museum of English Rural Life has a huge garden, about an acre, and there are currently two vegetable plots. One is planted in a wartime style, and the other is modern. Both of them are yielding lots [...]
Posted in gardening on Jul 26th, 2009
I haven’t been enjoying a great deal of success with my vegetable growing lately. My peas were frazzled during the heatwave, slugs have reduced my beans to mere sticks, all my courgette flowers have died and my beetroot don’t look too healthy either.
I suddenly noticed that the carrots were all growing very close together, so [...]
Posted in gardening on May 21st, 2009
Home grown lettuce.
I cheated a little bit, and bought these from the garden centre as seedlings, rather than planting my own seeds. But they’ve grown like mad in the past few weeks, and I finally decided they were big enough to eat! I’ve chopped up one of my six little lettuces, and am in the [...]
Yesterday I was bemoaning the irony of having watered my potted vegetable plot, mere minutes before it started to rain. This little pea plant’s about three inches tall, and seems to be quite efficient at collecting all those tiny little drops!
This morning I was feeling thoroughly miserable and germy and sorry for myself, and needed [...]