I always plant three crops of potatoes in succession as seen above, now my third crop is coming up, despite Buddy sitting on it. I seem to have potatoes in barrels and pots everywhere this year, along with onions, but I always think a gal can never have too many potatoes or onions. Last year’s …
My mini allotment, Little Lotte, has been busily growing leeks, lettuce, winter greens, spring onions, kale, onions and garlic throughout the winter months. Now the weather is improving I’ve planted potatoes and more onions and garlic and I’ve sown runner beans that will ramble up the fences. Now that so much clutter has been cleared …
The nights are drawing in quickly now. The leaves are turning and beginning to fall and a chill has crept in during the evenings. Soon we’ll be migrating from the kitchen to the lounge each night, drawn by the warmth of the log burner. The house is crawling with spiders. In every room large and …
Summer onions out… Winter onions in. Still they come, young and oh so sweet! Even sweeter, the best I’ve ever tasted. First ever home grown apricots. The parsley has been particularly strong and flavoursome this year… and the Accidental Orchards’ underplanting of wild flowers is beginning to bloom. There have been mallows, cornflowers, love-in-a-mist and …
I harvested the garlic this week. They grew from whole garlic bought from the supermarket last year, given the garden centres were in lockdown. I was appalled to discover that they were actually imported from China, how strange given we grow garlic in the UK. The garlic was also pretty small and these have grown …
Everywhere there be herbs. In the greenhouse, in trays spilling out of the greenhouse, more trays, and even more trays than shown here. They seem to multiply daily, not that I’m complaining. Many are still tiny due to the slow germination this spring, while others are flying up, such as the mugwort. Wheelbarrows are bushing …
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A rich earthy smell hangs heavily in the air and the undergrowth is alive with scurrying, rustling creatures going about their business. Blushes of roses become papery and begin to fade. Rose-hips adorn the apple trees. Tattered daisies begin to bloom. Out come the courgettes, chard and spinach that has now run to seed, in …
Peanut and her crew remained in the garden for twelve hours solid, then, without warning, she simply marched off with her chicks in front of my very eyes! The next day my phone rang off the hook as neighbours reported sightings of them, splashed across local social media. It seems they went walkabout across an …
This year I’ve decided to grow more herbs, for drying as well as using fresh. So far I have lovage, curly parsley, basil, chives, corriander and sage growing in the greenhouse. All the rest of the herbs in the new herb area were bought from a specialist herb nursery. For some strange reason I’ve always …
It looks like it’s going to be a good year….there’s that song again… for fruit, as all the trees are laden, despite the June drop. Let me show you around…. The greenhouse is overflowing with plants, now it’s mainly peppers, chilies and tomatoes. I can barely get inside to water them. I’m keeping the kale …
