Posted in Greenhouse growing, Harvesting, Herbs, Salads, sowing on Feb 23rd, 2012
Well: still no salad, of the lush leafy kind anyway, but at least I have some seedlings on the way now. The first of the salad sowings went in this month so I have a tray of mixed lettuce, plus three other kinds of lettuce (tried-and-tested favourite ‘Salad Bowl’, a heritage red butterhead ‘Merveille de [...]
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 [...]
Green cabbage, leeks, purple sprouting broccoli, salad leaves (from greenhouse), seakale (forced), spring greens
