I remembered we have cucumber moulds, so the continuous supply of Baby cucumbers are now looking different. As long as they’re sealed in a plastic bag in the fridge they are still perfect after 3 days. I’ve seen some tasty recipes for them, but we’ve mostly been having them in sandwiches or with hummus dips. Jamie hasContinue reading “Lazy Sunday Afternoon”
Tag Archives: allotment
Rinse and Repeat
What a sunny scene of home-sown flowers 😊. I must remember to sow lobelia into modules next year. It’ll make it far easier to pot them on. Zinnia seem to be the flower of the moment. And ours are appearing. They’re multi-coloured so some of the orange flowers are zinnia rather than marigolds. I’m seeing themContinue reading “Rinse and Repeat”
Rewind The Film
It’s here! The new drone video of the site, courtesy of Colin de Fraine. I hope you agree that the plots are looking amazing from all the different angles. How dry it is though! Still no rain, so thank goodness for the borehole and generator to pump our water. From Monday it’s National Allotment WeekContinue reading “Rewind The Film”
Superstition
It’s colourful-meal-time! No colour enhancement necessary for Salad Blue potatoes (they’re actually a maincrop). Fabulous looking and great flavour. The one Salad Blue plant that we pulled provided enough potatoes for several meals and there are still a few little ones left. These veggies were fried in chilli oil and included garlic so was totally delicious thoughContinue reading “Superstition”
In A Moment
Hands up who else was flagging like this yesterday! “When leaves show their undersides, be very sure rain betides” says the Farmer’s Almanac. Well, the rain reached Swindon but missed Hungerford, so I think it was wishful thinking for the beans, or perhaps they wanted us to do some more watering. Watering just isn’t the sameContinue reading “In A Moment”
I’m Free
I have more than a week off work – Yippee! And the weather is good – Hooray! Actually the weather has been beautiful continuously since my last post. The photo above was from last Sunday when the clouds put on a marvellous display throughout the day. And look at these beauties. We spent most ofContinue reading “I’m Free”
First of the Year
The last couple of weeks have been mostly warm, with much less rain than was threatened so we had to water every day. And there have been really windy days with sun-cloud-sun. Stupid weather doesn’t know what month it is! I like this photo of a mallow flower on the wildlife plot, with its ownContinue reading “First of the Year”
Sweet Harmony
Shared from my primary blog: https://plot7marshlane.blogspot.com/ What a month June has been. In the last week we’ve had beautiful blue skies and high temperatures (~30° on Friday) but night-time temperatures still fell to 3.4°! And now we’ve finally had some welcome rain. What a great growing-month. So happy to have teasels on the wildlife plotContinue reading “Sweet Harmony”
Wildlife on the Plot
I’m sticking with Blogger for the timebeing, but thought I’d share my latest post here too. https://plot7marshlane.blogspot.com/2022/02/all-these-things-that-ive-done.html Mostly because of the wildlife video, with such a cute grey squirrel!
Squash Tunnel (updated)
A tunnel full of squashes, just what I’ve always wanted
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