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Tag Archives: potatoes
Blighted
“Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn’t it Tess?” I decided to start this post as I ended the last – with a literary quote (welcome to Pseuds Corner). But this week I … Continue reading
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Tagged blight, Brussels, Brussels sprout, pineapple, potatoes, tomatoes
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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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Mid-Term Reports
Deadline for reports was about three days ago but as I no longer have someone to swear at me if I am perceived to be late or include too many ‘gramatical errors’ (sic), I have stuck to my usual report … Continue reading
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Tagged basil, beetroot, Blue kuri kabochi squash, broad beans, carrots, chard, courgettes, crown prince squash, Duke of York, french beans, jersey devil, kavolo nero, King Edward, Little Gem, lollo Rosso, peas, potatoes, runner beans, Salad, sarpo mira, squash, sweet million, Swift, tomatoes
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The First Lift
These are the days of miracle and wonder, as Paul Simon once sang. The garden is starting to produce, and all the fastidious work sowing seeds, potting on, planting out, weeding, hoeing and slaughtering snails, begins to pay off. One … Continue reading
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Tagged Alyce Fowler, Belle de Fontenay, kale, new potatoes, pennard plants, potatoes, slugs, Swift
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“Oh The Summertime is Coming..”
What a difference a month makes. In the space of what feels like a few brief days we have gone from a cold spring to the heat of midsummer. The Beast from the East has departed, with last month’s snowy … Continue reading
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Tagged amelanchier, howard 350, magpies, Onion, Onions, potato, potatoes, rotavator, rotovator, shallots, squash, squashes, tomato, tomatoes
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Green Shoots
Back to a new term and the new garden as we prepare to put my father to rest on Monday. It has, of course, been a strange time – the combination of funeral arrangements, sorting The Old Man’s estate and … Continue reading
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Tagged cavolo nero, greenhouse, hen, potato, potatoes, potting shed, psb, purple sprouting, tomato, tomtoes
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Late news from late summer
It was a wet end to the summer and I never really got the garden under the level of control I might in other years have demanded. I wrote this piece back in October, before a lot of other stuff … Continue reading
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Tagged chillis, Garden, gardening, green peppers, potatoes, purple sprouting, shallots, squashes, tomatoes
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A Potatolypse Now
“I love the smell of digging in the morning…….The smell, you know that wet earth smell, the garden. Smells like………Arran Victory”. “Someday this garden’s gonna end…” (apologies to Francis Ford Coppolla et al.)
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Tagged apocalypse now, Arran Victory, colonel kilgore, francis ford coppolla, potato, potatoes
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Warming Up
Finally the cold weather has relented and it suddenly feels like summer might be about to happen. It’s the time of year when I personally get constantly challenged over where I have just come back from holiday. Answer: nowhere. I … Continue reading
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Tagged blight, camellia, echinacea, melon, potato, potatoes, sweet peas, tomatoes
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New Term
And so here’s the summer, and what have we done? Another Easter over and a new term begun… Easter is an exciting time of year, with the greenhouse beginning to burst at the seams with seed trays which themselves start … Continue reading
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Tagged baileyhill bookshop, basil cabbages, brokali, cape daisy, chillis, Commonfarmflowers, courgettes, leeks, marogold, Nicotiana, peas, potatoes, purple sprouting, rudbeckia, zinnias
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