Posted in Harvesting, Shopping, Vegetables, tagged Vegetables on 25 November 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m still catching up on posts, using photos taken earlier in the month before I was knocked out by a cold. The above borlotti beans, beetroot, Chantenay carrots and rainbow chard constituted our last substantial serving of vegetables of the season, and very good they were. I served them with pot-roast partridges stuffed with Lincolnshire [...]
Posted in Courgettes, Harvesting, Shopping, The plot, Vegetables on 20 July 2007 | 2 Comments »
Planting the courgettes rather closely together has given them plenty of hiding places. The Tondo di Piacenza round courgettes are suddenly getting very large.
We’ll be producing courgette footballs soon.
The King Edwards are not ready yet, but there’s worrying development.
Is this blight?
To end on a lighter note, I took this scary rabbit picture at a posh [...]
Posted in Flowers, Fruit, Shopping, Vegetables on 7 July 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’m cheating a bit with this post, I admit, but today I photographed a few exhibits at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show that I’d love to share.
Medwyn Williams’ onions. Check out his leeks! And everything else in this stunning veg display.
McBeans Orchids in Floral Marquee 1 (apologies for the lack of specific info - [...]
Posted in Courgettes, Shopping, Vegetables on 27 May 2007 | 1 Comment »
In preparation for what we hope will be a bumper courgette harvest, I bought this famous (or infamous) recipe book. The writer Elaine Borish uses the words courgette and zucchini interchangeably, which gives me the opportunity to drop the word ‘zucchini’ into a post and quote a couple of her more interesting suggestions. Some [...]
Posted in Fruit, Harvesting, Shopping, Sowing and planting, The plot on 1 April 2007 | No Comments »
(Spot the ladybird!)
We spent most of this beautiful spring weekend at the plot, continuing to prepare for sowing and planting later this month: between us we clocked up the greatest number of hours we’ve managed over two days since taking on the allotment. Yet the radish and beetroot seeds I took along to sow yesterday [...]
Posted in Shopping, Sowing and planting on 24 March 2007 | 1 Comment »
The day began with an attempt to procure some manure for a crown of rhubarb, one of several much appreciated gifts brought by parents - more on those gifts as we plant them.
(There is a more obvious title for this post, but I’ll reserve my four-letter words for those moments when the slugs have done [...]
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