Posted in my allotment, tagged bindweed, birds, currants, florence fennel, fruit cage, lambs lettuce, little gem, lollo rosso, netting, peas, radicchio, red cabbage, slugs, snails, sweetcorn on June 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another trip to the allotment today. The red cabbage plantsĀ I planted the other day have been decimated (by slugs I think, but I think there may be some other prolific pest at large).
Worse still, two of the currant bushes have been almost completely stripped of fruit. It wasn’t ripe yet so the birds that have [...]
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Posted in my allotment, tagged garlic, bindweed, netting, onions, Sweet Cicely, Stevia, Aubergine, beetroot, courgette, sweetcorn, winter, dig, hoe, radish, bean, pak choi, peas, flea beetle, rainbow chard, bird control, french, cannellini, borlotti, runner, rhubarb, red cabbage 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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