Posted in Flowers, Harvesting, Rhubarb, Vegetables, tagged Flowers, potatoes, Rhubarb on 27 February 2008 | No Comments »
I dug up yet more King Edwards on Sunday and wonder how many are still in there, since the bed will soon be needed for something else. Their tendency to disintegrate when boiled seems lessened by our unintentional ‘overwintering’. I traded some with a friend for a piece of Scottish smoked haddock and heard later [...]
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 Artichokes, Courgettes, Fennel, Flowers, Harvesting, Rhubarb on 24 June 2007 | 2 Comments »
Courgette:
(Defender)
And fennel:
(Planted out yesterday)
We haven’t had any luck with flowers grown from seed - an entire packet of poppy seeds failed to produce a single plant and the fate of the sunflowers, munched by slugs or some other hungry pest, has already been documented. So, the appearance of these beneath one of the cherry trees [...]
Posted in Flowers, Fruit, Harvesting, Rhubarb, Sowing and planting, Vegetables on 19 May 2007 | No Comments »
The rain finally stopped.
Our afternoon on the plot was hard work: the damp soil was easier to dig but tougher to hoe than usual. We were rewarded for our efforts with month-old radishes, three sticks of rhubarb - both the first of the spring - and good old spinach beet.
The cherries are ripening nicely.
The cherry [...]
Posted in Courgettes, Fennel, Rhubarb, Sowing and planting, Vegetables on 5 May 2007 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this week (Tuesday, I think) J planted fennel seeds - Wadenroman, yet another Italian bargain from Gubbio market last summer - in the seed tray at the front on the right. They’ve joined the courgettes, butternut squash and the few little artichokes that weren’t ready to go into the plot. We are complete novices [...]
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