Posted in my allotment, tagged Aubergine, bindweed, block formation, currants, gooseberries, jam, peaches and cream, radishes, snake, sweetcorn on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I didn’t mean to be long……..
But, I wanted to plant the 3 aubergine plants that I’d been propagating at home, particularly since they were starting to suffer from life in the small pots they were housed in.
So, off I went, and ended up spending about an hour pulling out more bindweed (if only all my [...]
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Posted in Hints Tips and Other Stuff, tagged Aubergine, baby carrots, balcony, Big crops, broad beans, compost, containers, cress, drainage holes, dwarf varieties, grow your own food, hanging basket, herbs, ice cream tub, large food tins, light, old bucket, small places, spare tyre, spring onions, Strawberries, supermarkets, tools, warmth, water, watering can, waterproof, window box on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I got to thinking earlier about everyone being able to grow vegetables - wherever they live. Not everyone is blessed with a back garden (let alone acres of land). Some people have a balcony, some dont even have that.
So, how can everyone grow their own food?
Well, thankfully, there are plenty of plants, fruit and vegetables [...]
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Posted in my allotment, tagged Aubergine, bean, beetroot, bindweed, bird control, borlotti, cannellini, courgette, dig, flea beetle, french, garlic, hoe, netting, onions, pak choi, peas, radish, rainbow chard, red cabbage, rhubarb, runner, Stevia, Sweet Cicely, sweetcorn, winter on May 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Having spent quite some time now sorting out my allotment plot, I finally had the opportunity of tasting one of my own-grown vegetables. I was thinning some radishes, and popped one in my mouth! It had little taste but I put that down to it only being the size of a bean!
It’s all going quite [...]
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Posted in my allotment, tagged Alicante, Anaheim, Asparagus, Aubergine, Basil, Big Banana, bindweed, Borlotti Beans, brambles, Broccoli Claret, Burpless Tasty, butter bean, Cambridge Favourite, Cannellini Beans, Celery, Chillis, cloche, Common Thyme, Connovers Colossal, Coriander, Coure De Bleu, Cucumber, Curly Leaved Parsley, dwarf french bean rocenforte, Flat Leaved Parsley, Full White, garlic, Gartenperle, germinated, Harlequin, Heatwave, Jalapeno, Judibell, Lemon Grass, Lovage, membrane, Millefleur, Mint, netting, onions, Oregano, Pepper, poly tunnel, potatoes, propagator, rain, Runner Bean Best Of All, Russian Tarragon, Sakura, Salad Festival, sowing, Stevia, Strawberries, Summer Savoury, Super Roma, Sweet Cicely, Tigerella, tomato, veg plot, weather, weed suppressant, weeds, windowsill on April 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Well, last Sunday I decided I really need to brave the weather and go and do some allotmenting. The previous two weekends had brought snow, and the forecasts for Sunday were for rain showers and hail. However, it turns out that the weathermen got it wrong.
I trundled over to the plot and decided to start [...]
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