Posted in Courgettes, Vegetables, tagged Courgettes on 16 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
The broad beans have finally gone in, rather late, next to the overgrown path on the side of the plot:
Is this the most photographed artichoke in Britain? Something has been munching it and it’s looking less appetising by the minute:
Posted in Courgettes, Sowing and planting, Vegetables, tagged Courgettes, Squash on 13 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
A month ago I planted various courgette and squash seeds into modules (in the waxing gibbous moon, supposedly good for plants with internal seed-bearing fruits). On Wednesday they looked like this:
(Defender, Tondo di Piacenza, Jemmer (yellow) and Black Beauty courgettes - the latter a new variety for us.)
And this:
(Five butternut squash and three Tromba di [...]
Posted in Courgettes, The plot on 2 March 2008 | No Comments »
Twenty months or so after we began to fill our compost bin with fruit and veg peelings (and an awful lot of coffee filter papers), we used our own compost for the first time.
Yes, I know it isn’t very well turned. Sorting out some of the larger pieces of debris and returning them to the [...]
Posted in Courgettes, Harvesting, The plot, Vegetables on 30 September 2007 | No Comments »
The plot is looking more colourful as autumn approaches and the most eye-catching change since my last visit was the leveller bush (yet to produce any fruit, after two seasons), now a vivid red.
Here’s a more detailed view.
The borlotti beans, still growing, are producing just a handful of beautiful pink and green pods - quality [...]
Posted in Courgettes, Flowers, Harvesting on 16 September 2007 | No Comments »
Much of the plot still looks green as these dried Love-in-a-mist hint at autumn colours to come.
Recent sunshine has boosted the growth of the rainbow chard. I’m not sure what’s causing those holes in the leaves. Little snails?
I picked two round courgettes and half a normal one (a small snail was munching its way through [...]
Posted in Courgettes, Flowers, Fruit, Harvesting, Rhubarb, The plot on 13 September 2007 | No Comments »
It was a beautiful morning today and what has become the evening primrose patch is looking lovely amidst the generally overgrown top end of the plot.
I wasn’t sure if these were evening primrose - they seemed too short and stubby - until I read this text and discovered that they are biennial plants, forming ‘rosettes’ [...]
Posted in Courgettes, Harvesting, Vegetables on 27 August 2007 | 2 Comments »
I brought home a small but fine crop of shallots today, having picked them on Saturday and left them to dry in the sun, to continue drying on the windowsill for a few more days.
I thought I had ordered Red Sun shallots, but these are definitely Sante - must have got my wires crossed somewhere [...]
Posted in Courgettes, Flowers, Fruit, Harvesting on 24 August 2007 | 1 Comment »
Two pears made it to full size - double last year’s amount. I’m scratching my head for ways to preserve them. Pear butter, perhaps?
Otherwise, nature had it in for me today. Shortly after I arrived, I was bitten on the hand by an ant that had somehow got inside my glove (there’s a big red [...]
Posted in Courgettes, Fruit, Harvesting, Vegetables on 17 August 2007 | No Comments »
We picked the plums from one of our three plum trees, harvesting roughly three times as many as we got last year. Nevertheless, the two other trees didn’t produce anything (one did, but all the plums fell off suddenly a few weeks ago).
Here’s another view of this year’s.
We also got more courgettes, the Tondo di [...]
Posted in Courgettes, Harvesting, Vegetables on 7 August 2007 | 1 Comment »
We harvested the first full-sized beetroot of the Crimson King variety some three months after sowing the seed, steaming and eating both leaves and roots.
The courgette plants are back in action.
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