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 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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]