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Wet and then dry as life springs forth
Added by Lee James on May 14, 2013 at 23:05 — No Comments
Sun, Songbirds and... decomposing marrows
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Added by Lee James on May 6, 2013 at 18:57 — No Comments
Magic Times as the Sun Shines
Added by Lee James on May 5, 2013 at 23:44 — No Comments
Recipe for a rubbish Sunday
Added by Lee James on April 14, 2013 at 20:49 — No Comments
A fine day to throw up a polytunnel
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Saturday was an absolutely magic day down on the plot with almost wall to wall blue skies, barely a whisper of breeze and a mild suggestion of heat in the air. Not quite T-shirt time, but getting there. We took the chance…
ContinueAdded by Lee James on April 8, 2013 at 22:48 — No Comments
Lift Off!
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The snow stopped, the gales abated, heck- even our old pal the sun even made a prolonged appearance. I'm not calling the arrival of Spring yet, but it was lovely to spend the day down on the plot and we even got…
ContinueAdded by Lee James on April 1, 2013 at 21:02 — No Comments
Feeling a bit seedy...
As minds turn to what can be sown when, I've just done a full stock-take of our seed stash and, well, we've got loads. Read…
Added by Lee James on March 4, 2013 at 23:30 — No Comments
All fired up
Added by Lee James on March 3, 2013 at 1:52 — No Comments
A meagre but mealworthy midwinter harvest
Added by Lee James on January 16, 2013 at 0:07 — 2 Comments
Happy New Year!
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Belated good tidings; hope you had a great festive period and that the near year has kicked off in a style not too dissimilar to that which you would have chosen for it. We had excellent Christmasses.…
ContinueAdded by Lee James on January 12, 2013 at 23:44 — No Comments
Festive Pumpkin Chutney
As I'm tapping this out, the windows in our flat are steamed up and the place is full of the smell of spices and sugar; that's right, we've been on the chutney trail again. We've been meaning to make up a batch to give jars of as part of some Christmas …
ContinueAdded by Lee James on December 16, 2012 at 18:35 — No Comments
Sunny Sunday stroll to the plot
A gorgeous Sunday today, so despite not really planning to do any great amount of work we headed down the plot to take compost own and check on the fence progress... read…
ContinueAdded by Lee James on December 10, 2012 at 0:38 — No Comments
Weird and wonderful plants under threat
Some less than happy news from the horticultural world: I nipped from having a look at the fine construction job being done on our fence yesterday to a meeting at Moorbank Botanical Gardens which is …
ContinueAdded by Lee James on November 26, 2012 at 22:29 — No Comments
Causing o' fence!
Not much going on in terms of gardening for us this weekend. We're waiting for onions and garlic to sprout, there's some tidying up to be getting on with, but not enough for it to seem worthwhile to go out and get wet and cold in weather like that which we've had this weekend. However, don't think for a minute that the allotment excitement…
ContinueAdded by Lee James on November 26, 2012 at 22:25 — No Comments
Last of the turds, and the smallest vineyard in the world
Well, the manure pile is no more. About this time last year we took delivery of four tonnes of the stuff, and we've been slowly adding it to newly dug-over patches ever since. The last of it went on today. All sections of the plot read…
ContinueAdded by Lee James on November 18, 2012 at 22:07 — No Comments
Recipe: Chinese Style Knackered Sweetcorn Soup
Since we harvested the underdeveloped cobs of corn from our sweetcorn plants nearly a month ago, they've sat…
ContinueAdded by Lee James on November 18, 2012 at 19:41 — No Comments
Parsnip harvest, and help from a mercenary digmaster
A fine day followed a soggy evening in Newcastle yesterday, making for good conditions in which to continue the slow work of tidying up and preparing the ground for next year's planting... …
ContinueAdded by Lee James on November 18, 2012 at 12:17 — No Comments
Planting out, feeling grim
The match at the patch
We've been blessed (figuratively speaking; I'm not thanking any particular deity for this. I don't have much time for those guys) with blue skies and even a bit of warmth over the weekend which has made pottering around on the plot very pleasant. …
ContinueAdded by Lee James on October 22, 2012 at 22:35 — No Comments
Wrong-Cabbage Kimchi Recipe
In this first year of growing stuff on our plot, we've tended not to do much to our veg in the kitchen; everything has been cooked very simply, probably because we're still getting used to actually having home-grown veg around and treat it as a bit of a luxury. However nice fresh cabbage, cooked…
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