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Welcome to our home…. A handmade peasant life. Anyone for dock pudding? 25 days to go…). I’ve not even started yet and it’s apparent this subsistence thing is like crossing a big, hungry river on wobbly stepping stones. But even more profoundly peasanty is deciphering the back-story that is the hedgerow harvest. Could there be an unbroken, three-season narrative to uncover, starting with the wild garlic and ending with wild mushrooms? I’ve already discovered that the main attraction of this food. Back in...
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Rambling Mole: April 2012
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Friday, 27 April 2012. Porch - more slow progress. Because of the weather I have not been able to get out much this week. We did go to B&Q and buy the window furniture for the porch (why is it called furniture please someone? I managed to get it all fitted without too much grief - much to my surprise. I had expected to have problems getting the latch pins in the right places but with care it all worked. Tuesday, 24 April 2012. Allotment before the rain comes. I slipped down there for an hour today before...
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Country Bliss - the allotment: May 2010
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Country Bliss - the allotment. Started in the middle of May 2009, we hope by trial and error to grow most of our vegetables. Tuesday, 25 May 2010. We found a slo worm in the compost heap, surprisingly hard to photograph this was the best of 10 shots. Just about empty plot at the beginning of May. Inside the shed cucumbers, courgettes, pattypans, butternut squash, pumpkin and a messy floor. Runner beans coming along very quickly. In the greenhouse shed everything is shooting up sweetcorn,. Im a wahm selli...
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Rambling Mole: Allotment before the rain comes.
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012. Allotment before the rain comes. The forecast suggests that in the next five days we will get a month's rain. They don't seem to say what month though. August would be good! But I suspect not as it amounts to about 60mm or 2.3 inches in English. Having cut Granddad's grass today as well has planted his row of Alderman peas, I decided it was time to do mine. Apart from that I also managed to find time to pick our first radishes of the season. Now to hope the forecasters are wrong.
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Rambling Mole: June 2012
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Tuesday, 12 June 2012. Sunday afternoon we were offered another piece of allotment. Truth is we did ask and have been watching a few, but this is one we would rather it not have been. Why? So yesterday I took a couple of hours to make a start and get the weed cleared and some digging done. Unfortunately rain came in before I got very far but, leaving a path (a sort of zone to prevent disputes really) I started. and although I didn't get very far through the heap of weeds grew rapidly. I once read somewhe...
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Rambling Mole: May 2011
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Monday, 9 May 2011. I have been trying to concentrate on building a lean-to greenhouse for the allotment to go against the shed, the trouble is that with digging, planting and weed control there just aren't enough hours in the day! Because of this everything needs netting, which is a bit of a nuisance but occasionally we find pigeon feathers scattered around so we know that the resident fox family has been at work, although it may be the friendly buzzards. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Last week turned out...
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Rambling Mole: More work!
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Tuesday, 12 June 2012. Sunday afternoon we were offered another piece of allotment. Truth is we did ask and have been watching a few, but this is one we would rather it not have been. Why? So yesterday I took a couple of hours to make a start and get the weed cleared and some digging done. Unfortunately rain came in before I got very far but, leaving a path (a sort of zone to prevent disputes really) I started. and although I didn't get very far through the heap of weeds grew rapidly. I once read somewhe...
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Country Bliss - the allotment: April and May 2011
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Country Bliss - the allotment. Started in the middle of May 2009, we hope by trial and error to grow most of our vegetables. Wednesday, 15 June 2011. April and May 2011. Whoops first blog of the year! In March/April I sowed the seeds at home. We bought a small polytunnel. Early May saw lots of flowers on the strawberries and we planted the sweetcorn. Doubly protected from the pheasants with upended plant pots and netting. St and 2nd Earlies doing well and the ground was so dry. This year we are growing:.
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Country Bliss - the allotment: June & July
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Country Bliss - the allotment. Started in the middle of May 2009, we hope by trial and error to grow most of our vegetables. Friday, 22 July 2011. Everything is a bit slow growing here this year but things are slowly starting to pick up. In the polytunnel we've been picking cucumbers, Basil, coriander and salad leaves. There's now plenty of flowers on the Tomatoes, Aubergines, Chillies and Jalapeno's. Lots of green tomatoes but no sign of red ones yet. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This is a Flickr...