Have a good Christmas and here's to a good gardening new year!
The trials, tribulations and occasionally utter futility of growing flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Happy Christmas from Snowy Lancashire
Have a good Christmas and here's to a good gardening new year!
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
December Occupations
One other thing I did this week was to sow some Himalayan Poppy seeds - I've heard they need a cold spell to germinate, so I carefully sowed them in the pot with the parent plant as it is armour plated against snails and slugs.
All that's left to do now is hibernate with some gardening catalogues and my laptop: I did the bulk of my Christmas shopping during the thaw when I could get about, I have a 25 kilo bag of bread flour in the kitchen, along with some big bags of lentils; parsnips and artichokes in the fridge, brussel sprouts on the allotment waiting for Christmas day, so I'm all set for the snow. Hope you all enjoy the wintry weather (those of you in the cold part of the world, anyway!) and have a good Christmas.
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Snow Pictures
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Review of 2010 - Part 5, Marrows, Pumpkins and Courgettes
The pumpkins did really well too, with a record 11 fruits, some of which are still waiting to be eaten. As a little postscript to this post, here's a story of what can happen with stored marrows and pumpkins.
Then, and only then, I looked upward, to find a marrow had rotted and was oozing water out of the crate. Drip, drip, downwards, hence the bad smell and mysterious watery substance. The smell in the crate was not pleasant! So the moral of this story is to keep marrows and pumpkins where you can easily keep an eye on them.
Oh, and the cat's fine, by the way. She's spending the winter attached to the radiator under the window, can't prise her off it:
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