I had to introduce you to my lovely little old man Django again 

   

   

The young boy

   

   

   

These are my favourite seasonal veg, I say seasonal but the freezer might disagree. I grow about 20 plants in a trench made up of winter veg peelings And topped with the first grass clippings of the year, before covering over and leaving to rest. I never move the trench, they are a permanent fixture.

I have no idea what variety I grow and neither does my father as they were his grandfathers and we’ve never grown anything different. I’ve experimented with different types in wigwams around the garden but, always saved these. I give away about 200 a year to the local gardening club to sell on as I have a lot of saved seeds generally. 

They get a little black fly some years and some rust towards the end of the season but, they never let me down.

What runners do you grow?

Wishing you a very happy birthday Mamz

I like a good book, and the circle of life, so a book on storing wood the Norwegian way, well what’s not to like.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Norwegian-Wood-...th=1&psc=1


There are probably alternative sources and I challenge you to hunt them out.

Just made my first loaf of bread ever! After all this kneading and proving it better be  good or else I am going back to Warburtons!

Its a lot more time consuming than I imagined.

           

This Honesty (Lunaria Annua) has been stripped by caterpillars - but what are they? 

A few clues to help you - 

Lunaria is the favourite food plant of the Orange tip butterfly.

Lunaria is a member of the brassica family.

The flowers and leaves are edible and taste of cabbage.

So lockdown for all us daywalkers has been a chance to take stock and potentially try something new. 

So what have you done recently that you've either not had the chance to before or have managed to do again?

I've been dabbling at a number of projects, built a new pizza oven, had the chance to draw and paint, discovered the wonders of youtube chefs and generally managed to escape the clutches of the OH's list.

It's been blissful.

Hi all,

Some of you may remember from another time and place that I was fretting last year about taking on a full plot shortly after having my baby. I want to keep a little photo journal of our progress on the plot. If this isn't the best section for it, please let me know or move me as needed!

We took the plot in June last year (only a couple weeks shy of a year ago).
   

It's still in every way a work in progress, but this is where we are now.
   

Here are some embarrassing close ups of a few beds.
           

I hope to have the bed on the left behind the wheelbarrow full of beans, corn, squash, and pumpkins in the next month or so.

Overall, we're pleased with how we're getting on (even if our plot still looks worse than some of the established ones that have been neglected due to COVID isolation thus far this year!).

I was quite late getting my toms going as I didn't anticipate the lack of compost availability. I had to start mine off in last years spent compost, and as a result they were a little wee. I also made the fatal mistake of using the compost that top dressed my toms from last year, and now have 90 odd plants with no identifying characteristics to tell one from another. I put 3 seeds in each pot and got 8-10 seedlings out of them.

Not to worry, these got transplanted on Tuesday evening late on, and the OH forgot to open the greenhouse while I was in work yesterday so killed about 50% of the little ones. I had spare but, whether I've got the types and numbers I need is a lottery.

Same old same old, every year is a mystery.