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adventures in non-violent subsistence
24 March 2007
04 March 2007
09 February 2007
31 January 2007
It must be nearly February. I have swede, sprouts and kale in abundance - but not a lot else. The leeks didn't get sown in sufficient numbers and the warm autumn made all but one of the purple sprouting brocolli crop far too early. The bunching onions have been a revelation, however. I've got maybe 150 when stored maincrop onions are a mere memory. Admittedly the shallots are still ok and there's garlic galore from store, but bunching onions supplemented by leeks = year round onions.
This is sprout Rubine. They taste even better than they look - even the 'tops' are like a sweet kale.
20 January 2007
It feels like another planet from the perspective of a windy, hail-y and increasingly cold January...but these are some of my late summer pickings...
Yu Choy! At long last a couple of plants got to the table without bolting or being obliterated by slugs. A brassica with tender stems the shape of very slender rhubarb.
Winter Squash. Unfortunately all eaten now...
Romanesco calabrese thing! 'Veronica' I think...
The last of the chillies and tomatoes picked in late October... I sowed some more today.
06 September 2006
03 September 2006
Pizza for our evening meal today: all this lot went in plus home-grown onions, garlic and pepper. Providing for the family at this time of year is as easy as falling off a log. Wonder how they'll feel about nettle soup in April?
The tomatoes are big, but the aubergines are tiny - the remnants of a patio specimen tattered by the recent downpours...
26 August 2006
One week, six tonnes of top soil, four tonnes of gravel and some autumn crops.
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Bunching onions to the fore.
An optimistic late sowing of runner beans growing over the arch, to be replaced by kiwis in November.
This bed was constructed earlier in the summer, and is already a jungle of borage, tomatoes (provenance unknown), asparagus peas, fennel (also unintended) and marjoram.
14 August 2006
08 August 2006
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