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Tag Archives: garlic
Clearing the Litter
Winter arrived in the Midlife Garden with a vengeance in December. It reminded me that I really should have been putting everything to bed for the fallow season, while planting and prepping stuff for the early spring risers. But as … Continue reading
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Tagged chilli jam, chilli pepper, garlic, Leaf litter, mulch, mulching
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One Tomato, Two Tomato
The clocks have gone back, so maybe summer is finally over. The harvest should have been safely gathered in, although the recent warm air currents seem to suggest there is still more growing to do. I cleared two of the … Continue reading
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Tagged chillis, courgettes, garlic, passata, ratatouille, sun-dried tomatoes, sweet peas, tomatoes
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Provenance
The other day Mrs B came home with a new cook book. This not an entirely unusual occurrence: we both enjoy discovering new recipes, and Mrs B owns a Bookshop. You do the Math. Home Food, is written by Olia … Continue reading
Too early or too hot?
Another hot, dry start to the summer, another discussion about climate change. At the end of term I sat through several showings of documentaries on climate change which alarmed and depressed me in equal measure. Alarming because the stats suggest … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, french beans, garlic, new potatoes, Onions, potatoes, runner beans, shallots
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Planting to the Music of Time
The rhythm of the seasons is changing its beat as summer segues into autumn. In the past, it was a time of year I would associate with final harvests of the summer and then closing down for the winter. I … Continue reading
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Tagged aqua dulce, autumn, broad beans, Broccoli, brussels sprouts, curly kale, echinacea, foxglove, foxgloves, garlic, honesty, kale, leeks, mushrooms, Nigella, Onions, phaecellia, Shallot, shallots
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One Month On
It’s been a month since I put finger to keyboard (or for some I know it would be thumbs to keyboard). It is an interesting comparison to see how stuff has panned out in the past 30 days. A month … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening Times
Tagged Cabbages, chillis, cosmos, courgettes, curly kale, cut flowers, Elephant garlic, foxgloves, garlic, kale, new potatoes, shallots, sweet peas, tomatoes
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End of Term report
It’s that time of the year again when the evening chill sharpens, the leaves start to turn and we spend a fruitless Sunday morning trying to purchase Glastonbury tickets. And it has been months since I delivered any sort of … Continue reading
When the Living is Easy
like most of my gardening exploits it is down to Google, hunch, and plain dumb luck. Continue reading
Season of Lists
I’ve rewritten this post about three times as I have tried to get the tone right. Autumn has always been to me a time for reflection though in my younger years it was enlivened by my birthday in October which … Continue reading
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Tagged Aubergine, autumn, echinacea, garlic, green peppers, irises, rudbeckia, squashes, sweet william, veronica
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The secret of good timing
When my parents were developing the garden and working it up to produce vegetables on an industrial scale they used to start to plan their holidays around the seasons in the garden so that they would not be away when … Continue reading
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Tagged Elephant garlic, garlic, lautrec wight, mangetout, Onions, peas, purple wight, sciatica, sugar snaps, sword in the stone
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