Archive for ‘Mulch’

14 August 2008

Inspiration

If ever there was a web site to spur you on to greater things in the vegetable garden, this is it. The Dervaes Family are on a mission to live as sustainably as possible – and we can learn a lot from them. Their plot of land is one fifth of an acre from [...]

Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 2:37 pm

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13 August 2008

Rainy day activity

For the past few days it has rained. It has rained so much that it constantly sounds like the final verse of the 12 Days of Christmas on our roof. And then it has rained some more. All of which means that it has not been ‘get out in the garden and do some work’ [...]

Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 6:08 pm

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17 July 2008

In a pickle

I think I might have mentioned that we have had a bumper garlic harvest. 11.5kg. That’s a whole lot of stinkiness. In fairness, that is the weight of the garlic with all its leaves still attached, but still, it’s fair to say that we have ridiculous amounts of garlic and so it seems [...]

Filed under: Harvest, Mulch, Recipes - Non-soup — Clare @ 4:59 pm

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17 June 2008

Left to its own devices

Life has been very busy here for the past few weeks. This is partly because we have been making preparations for a trip we’re taking today to Barcelona. This will be mostly work rather than pleasure, but I expect there will be some fun thrown in too.

I’ve taken steps to ensure that the potager [...]

Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 2:28 pm

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24 May 2008

Breathing easy

It’s been longer than I intended since I last posted – for which I apologise.  My stressful week went fine but was followed by further busy-ness that has left little time for inspiration of the green-fingered kind.

This weekend is Owen’s birthday (more on that tomorrow) so our plans have been to do nothing much today [...]

Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 2:09 pm

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7 May 2008

Brief update

Stressful event number 1 this week is now out of the way.  I’d love to report that it went well, but it was something of an ordeal.  The outcome was fine, but the process was awful.
Tomorrow I am going away for a few days with work so will not be blogging or gardening until I [...]

Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 5:43 pm

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30 April 2008

A bean’s a bean, but a pea…

Last year I had hoped to break my duck, as it were, and finally grow myself some peas. Unfortunately, excessive rain combined with allotment indolence, leading to complete allotment abandonment scuppered those dreams. This year I am better prepared and more hopeful. My pea seedlings are planted out and more seeds are sown.
My [...]

Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 11:14 am

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15 March 2008

En vacances

Just a quick post before I throw myself in the shower to get clean and shiny for our trip to Paris.
I will post while we are away.
Assuming I manage to find time between the food, the shopping, the  sightseeing, the ambience, the eating, the art, the eating and the eating.  Did I mention the eating?

Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 8:12 am

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