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 Artichokes, Sowing and planting, Vegetables, tagged Artichokes on 27 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
I noted on 18th March 2007 that globe artichokes were the first seeds we sowed last year. After surviving a slug onslaught and a long winter, one of the two remaining plants has at last produced an artichoke, some 14 months later.
My plan to plant according to the phases of the moon is proving tricky [...]
Posted in Flowers, Fruit, Sowing and planting, Vegetables on 25 March 2008 | No Comments »
Although you can’t see it, this photo of blossom on a plum tree was taken during a snow shower yesterday.
This sudden burst of late wintry weather would be called takatalvi (back winter or the return of winter) in Finland, where I lived for a number of years, the difference being that takatalvi means snow in [...]
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 Flowers, Harvesting, The plot, Vegetables, tagged Flowers, Vegetables on 11 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Finding Osteospermums in flower in February must be unusual.
This monstrously unappetising radish would be unusual at any time of the year.
Clearing the beds (late again!) for spring planting, we found more vegetable surprises: a small handful of baby beetroot.
Emerging crocuses are what I’d expected to see, with a little luck (and less squirrel activity) this [...]
Posted in Artichokes, Flowers, Harvesting, The plot, Vegetables, tagged Artichokes, Flowers, herbs, potatoes on 26 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is the first week I’ve given the allotment any serious thought since the late autumn, sitting down to make a crop rotation plan and a list of tasks to accomplish before spring sets in (to follow in a later post).
Just as I was planning which potato varieties to order for this season (with suggestions [...]
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 The plot, Vegetables on 21 November 2007 | No Comments »
This week’s soggy weather does not inspire trips to the allotment. But on a sunny, crisp and chilly afternoon last Friday there were patches of frost around the site and the water tanks were frozen.
The plot is even starting to look rather abandoned.
Only the rainbow chard is still really thriving (and those little fennels, recently [...]
Posted in Fennel, The plot, Vegetables, tagged fennel vegetables on 4 November 2007 | 3 Comments »
This rather daft, dreamy photo shows two small bulbs of fennel that seem to have planted themselves and avoided the fate of their parents, who went to seed some time ago: it’s thriving in the unexpectedly warm autumn weather.
The sunshine made the most of this autumnal scene at the allotment site.
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