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 [...]
Tag Archive 'gardening'
Grow your own!
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 [...]
World’s Smallest Carrot.
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 [...]
Lollo Rosso.
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 [...]
Preparing the garden.
Posted in nature on Apr 21st, 2009
Yesterday I forked over the area behind my Shed, dug three enormous holes, and planted the Trachelospermum jasminoides (Star Jasmine).
*fingers crossed*
The lady in the garden centre said not to release the ties that are holding the plants to the sticks until they seem nice and happy in the ground, so I’ll check on them tomorrow and [...]