I didn’t really get to the allotment other than to harvest over last weekend but the weekend before I was up there most days. It is coming on nicely still, plenty of courgettes and kale, a reasonable amount of beetroot from the first sowing, the first runner beans and a very few peas from the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘peas’
Allotment 04/08/09
Posted in Food, Home grown food, allotment, tagged beetroot, peas on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Allotment 04/07/09
Posted in Food, Home grown food, allotment, tagged allotment, cabbages, french beans, Garden, peas, runner beans on July 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Spent a very busy couple of hours up on the allotment today with Rhys and middle-youngest-sister. All the time we were up there it was threatening to rain, and did start twice, but we still get a lot done. Three beds sorted, one for MYS’s tomato plants, half of one has gone down to peas, [...]
A few seconds of calm
Posted in Chicken, Day-to-day, Garden, Goats, Quail, Sheep, tagged Garden, goat, kid, lamb, lambing, milking, moon planting, peas, Sheep, vet, work on March 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’m both emotionally and physically wrung out, life at work is far from pleasant and I’m spending my time from waking up each morning counting down the time until I can leave and go… to another job. I’m working three different jobs at the moment, it’s interesting though. And I am enjoying two of them, [...]
Winter Solstice
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, Homemade, Quail, tagged bucket, carrots, chocolate, Christmas, eggs hatching, garlic, leeks, moon planting, onion, peas, Quail, Winter Solstice on December 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today was the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. From now on days will be getting longer and everything with start to wake up.
As a sort of celebration I have spent this evening making paper pots and sowing peas, carrots (to be grown in buckets until the warmer weather when they can go outside) [...]
Seeds, more seeds and seedlings
Posted in Day-to-day, Food, Garden, Home grown food, tagged ebay, peas, seeds, Sweet corn on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My seeds from ebay arrived the other day.
Unfortunatly the sweet corn seeds that I bought aren’t eatable ones, I should have read the listing more carefully, which meant a trip to the garden centre to buy some more seeds asap to plant now, and a few others.
My trays of pea seeds are coming through nicely now, [...]
