Well first the garden – I've been busy out in the veg garden and all of the following are doing well. sweetcorn brocolli cauliflower peas runner beans strawberries rasberries onions beetroot spinach onions tomatoes Also in but not up yet I've got leeks, carrots and cucumber. The asparagus beds are on their second year and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘veg’
13 Sep
Autumn Show Success
Today was the Autumn Village Show. I did pretty well at the Summer show but I was entering more veg this time – scary as the veg classes are VERY competitive and most of my summer success was in the cookery classes (which I never did post here – I may do a retrospective!). I [...]
30 Aug
The good life…
my entire charlotte crop! beetroot, beans, tomato, spuds I'm living my own mini version of the good life now. Today I picked my Charlotte potato crop – very disappointing. I grew them in a tyre stack and kept them going for months but not many actually grew. I hope I do better with the Maris [...]
27 Apr
We sold our first cabbage!
Yep this morning I put out some spring cabbages for sale and we sold one! I was quite chuffed. All of our eggs go quickly too but I think its mostly the neighbors that buy them. Mind you the industrial unts at the other end of the service road is now advertising itself as "Rawlings [...]
25 Nov
OMG – Its been a month
Not a single post in a month, well its not really garden weather and I've been a little under the weather myself – had a cold and virus for most of this month which amongst other symptoms has made me dizzy where my inner ear was affected. We did finally get my poor magnolia planted [...]
26 Oct
Busy Busy
Well yesterday I had my "handyboy" over to do a days work with me. First job up was to finally get the swiming pool down. You might remember I emptied it a while back but I couldn't get all the screws undone to take it down so Tom did it yesterday. The lawn underneath is [...]
8 Sep
Village Show
Just the one winner, came second in the mixed ornamental fruit or berries. Heres my winning entry! Mixed berries Here are my other entries Roses Mixed flowers The mixed flowers looked very pretty and to display them I've added the rest of the roses now. The roses were 2 different entries but I've [...]
8 Sep
Autumn village show
Up with the lark this morning to prepare entries for the Autumn show. It's smaller than the summer one, just fruit, veg and flowers with no childrens classes. My entries were few and not amazing, I even think I got one a bit wrong as I presented it like one I'd seen in the summer [...]
