Posted in Herbs on Jan 31st, 2012
Was there ever a herb that gave so much and asked so little in return as rosemary? I wouldn’t be without it. I’ve grown it every which way: in my last garden, I trimmed three rosemary bushes into little hedges wrapped round the foot of some trellis. In this garden, I’ve inherited a big blowsy [...]
Posted in Herbs, Salads, Unusual veg on Jan 27th, 2012
When I took up the challenge set by Michelle at Veg Plotting to find salads to eat from my garden every week of this year, it took a little while for the penny to drop that she was starting the challenge at the beginning of the year. Logical, you might think, until it occurs to you [...]
Posted in Herbs on Nov 28th, 2011
This is my year for growing herbs. Great mounds of billowing rosemary, stately lovage marching through vivid green parsley, hummocks of purple and green and multicoloured sage pierced here and there with drumsticks of puffball-topped chives or soaring firework-bursts of angelica. I shall grow herbs for making tea; herbs for sprinkling in your cooking or mashing [...]
Posted in Allotments, Fruit, Greenhouse growing, Herbs, Rogues' Gallery, sowing on Nov 23rd, 2011
A few weeks ago I lovingly sowed three double rows of broad beans (‘Aquadulce Claudia’, of course: what else?) to overwinter. You may think this was quite a lot: but I had decided to only do one sowing, saving myself time in spring, and besides last year my overwintered broad beans were the best I’d [...]
Posted in Harvesting, Herbs, Propagation, sowing on Sep 22nd, 2011
About now, while the proper harvest is at full pelt and I’m drowning in runner beans and wondering what any sane person is supposed to do with eight ‘Potimarron’ squashes, my thoughts also begin to turn to gathering in a secondary crop, almost as important as the first. Saving your own seed isn’t just about saving money. [...]
Apples (late varieties like Cox's Orange Pippin), beetroot, cabbage (green and red), carrots, celeriac, chard, Jerusalem artichokes, kale, kohlrabi, medlars, parsnips, pumpkins, quince, raspberries (autumn varieties), salad leaves, sprout tops, squashes, turnips
