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Tag Archives: shallots
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
Posted in Gardening Times
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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“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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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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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
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Tagged Cabbages, chillis, cosmos, courgettes, curly kale, cut flowers, Elephant garlic, foxgloves, garlic, kale, new potatoes, shallots, sweet peas, tomatoes
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Potato Day 2017
Today was Potato Day in Castle Cary and once again Mrs B and I pottered along to Caryford Hall to grab our annual selection of little chitters. It used to be in the Consti Club where we would enjoy the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arran Victory, belle de fontenay potato, Cherie, King Edwards, Longor, Onion, Onions, pennard plants, potato, Sarpo Axona, Shallot, shallots, Vigamor
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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
Hot Chit
The rain teemed down again today which meant no golf as the course was closed (I reckon The Royal Wheathill will be closed for weeks at this rate) but it did mean that I was able to accompany Claire to … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Cherie, Kestrel, King Edward, pennard plants, potato, Ratte, Red Duke of York, red onion, sarpo mira, shallots, wilja
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