Harvesting

Sprout Torment

December 25, 2008
Sprout Torment

I rose early enough today to make a quick detour to the plot to source a traditional array of Christmas dinner delights. The carrots may have been merely bite-sized but the parsnips have got to be world-record challengers. I got so carried away that I dug an entire bed of them. That should make for [...]

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Night Life

December 4, 2008
Night Life

I’ve been finding it difficult to find the time to get down to the plot recently, but faced with the prospect of yet another meal of tinned mushroom soup, I thought the time had come to rescue some of the remaining winter roots. Armed with 4 high power bike torches I headed down to the [...]

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Winter Roots

November 9, 2008
Winter Roots

I woke at the crack of dawn, dreaming of crunchy roast potatoes. Fortunately I didn’t have a stash of Kerr’s Pink in the flat or I think I would have been chomping away long before 5am. Not one to delay gratification for too long, I waited for daylight and then headed down to the plot [...]

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Aroma of Vinegar

August 10, 2008
Aroma of Vinegar

I think I wasted my time this morning lighting a new stick of patchouli and lemon incense. The mornings trip to the lotty resulted in a monstrous glut that could only mean an afternoon spent preparing chutney and a house oozing the homely charm of hot spicy vinegar. There are a couple of cauliflowers in [...]

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Gardeners Question Time

August 6, 2008
Gardeners Question Time

I haven’t been down to the plot for a few days so there was a good quantity of produce waiting for my arrival: Doesn’t that look delicious? In addition I filled a canvas sack with more beans and a stack of chard but it didn’t look quite so photogenic. I’m going to make herbed summer [...]

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Potato Quartet

August 2, 2008
Potato Quartet

My Dad has been hoping to use me as a blight early warning station, assuming that I’d be hit before the spores were carried northward in the breeze, but as it turned out he was able to alert me first. The fungal foray started in Yorkshire. To be on the safe side I’ve dug up [...]

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Carrot – £1.20

July 9, 2008
Carrot - £1.20

I couldn’t wait any longer so pulled the anxiety causing carrot out of the ground this weekend. It was completely blemish free and was chomped almost immediately – delightful, although excessively expensive. Out of the 3 packs of seeds I sowed in early spring, I managed to persuade 5 carrots to grow to maturity which [...]

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Potato Tasting

June 18, 2008
Potato Tasting

I’ve given up on my first earlies for now, the slugs had their wicked way with the foliage and as a result hindered the tuber growth to pea sized proportions. All the other spuds appear to be getting back handers of performance enhancing drugs though so today I decided to start whipping them out. I [...]

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