Our friend Janet popped in to see us yesterday which was lovely as we hadn’t seen her since before the Christmas holidays. As usual she passed on all manner of fabulous gardening and cooking knowledge and before long had the children outside ‘helping her’take down a wire fence from our vegetable garden [...]
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We started messing around with our new vegetable plot this last weekend by digging overa couple of square metres and planting a couple of different varieties (artichoke for roasting and silverskin for general cooking) of garlic in the patch where potatoes were grown last year by Miss Dennly. We planted about 30 cloves each about [...] The plot of land we’ve had added on to our tenancy at the back of our garden has been a vegetable patch for many years as it was owned by the keen gardener next door neighbour and landlady. Emily Dennly had lived here since she was 5 years old when she came to live with [...] We have recently been told by our landlord that we can now use the vegetable plot at the back of our garden which has been used for the past 85 years by his aunt. It is stocked full with carrots,leeks,potatoes and a whole load of beetroots. We got a call from Janet,our [...] A lack of landfill space is reaching a crisis situation. By composting our own garden and kitchen waste we are each able to do our bit towards reducing the amount of landfill space needed for refuse. We’ve never had a garden as big as the one we now have. When we lived in London we [...] Janet (my legendary new aquaintance) tells me that when I pick the apples from our tree (Cox’s apparently according to Janet) or the tomatoes &chillis from our plants we should keep a bit of stalk attached which will help the fruit to keep. Removing the stalk when picking creates a wound in the fruit [...] This morning was spent helping my newest local friend Janet tidy up our next door neighbour’s garden. Janet is a trained horticulturalist and has many years of experience under her belt. Despite being retired for several years she maintains a number of local gardens and has a huge wealth of knowledge which I was very [...] | ||||||
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