Albigensian Wight and Solent Wight are by far my favourite from the home grown garlics so next year these are what I plan to grow. Both had nice big bulbs earlier than the rest (even though Solent is a late variety) and both are soft necked so keep well, in fact from the first year I planted [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Garlic update. And the winner is…
Posted in vegetable garden, tagged garlic, onions, shallots, sowing lists, the garlic farm, vegetable garden, vegetables on July 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
You say tomato and I say…well tomato as well actually…
Posted in vegetable garden, tagged container planting, garlic, tomatoes, vegetable garden, vegetables on July 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It’s tomato time in the garden. Apart from courgettes (which I have to confess, I am struggling to keep up with) they are the main produce at the moment. Little note for next year – 8 plants is not enough, most of the recipes I like to use need a minimum of 1, ideally [...]
Onions and Shallots…
Posted in vegetable garden, tagged jam, onions, pickles, shallots on July 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Onions and shallots are new to me and I am impressed enough to make space for them next year. I bought shallots (‘Longer’) as sets earlier this year (which just look like small shallots) and they were sent out in Feb/March I think. I planted them in rows between the carrots with about 7/8 sets [...]
July Flowers…
Posted in flower garden, tagged crocismia, cutting patch, flower border, sunflowers, verbena, violas on July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The July borders are a bit of a let down to be honest. The only real patch of interest are some bright touches of red provided by Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ (which I confess to love, hence the new header) and some Potentilla ‘Gibson’s Scarlet’. Both look nice though against the dark brown Smoke Bush and acid [...]
Jam, Jelly and July eating…
Posted in vegetable garden, tagged carrots, gooseberries, onions, redcurrants, shallots, tomatoes, vegetable garden, vegetables on July 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The fruit just keeps coming. I have made redcurrant jelly, gooseberry and thyme jelly and gooseberry jam. As you can see above, I use improvised methods for straining my jelly (I am on my last few muslin clothes bought when my eldest son was born – he is now 4 – let me stress, all [...]
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