Category Archives: Summer Harvesting

Monday Harvest

This week has been more of the same really – lots of lovely summery things.  Cucumbers of all shapes and sizes – the last one has a very odd lumpy bit, but I think I’ll forgive it and eat it … Continue reading

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Potato Experiments – Peter Cundall’s method revisited

Last September I posted on my establishing a new bed in which the first crop was to be potatoes.  I decided to employ the method of potato growing detailed by Peter Cundall in that months Organic Gardener magazine.  I didn’t … Continue reading

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A Summer of Salads – January

When I read about Vegplotting’s 52 week salad challenge, the aim of which is to harvest or forage some salad leaves to eat every week of the year, I have to say I smugly thought no problem.  Then I looked … Continue reading

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Monday Harvest

Another week and another attempt to kill my tomatoes…My tomatoes were dying: browning foliage and no more growth.  I fed them about 10 days ago but it didn’t seem to have helped.  After I spent much time researching tomato diseases … Continue reading

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Drying Herbs: Oregano

I cut my oregano for drying today. I’ve always imagined myself cooking in a large kitchen with bunches of home grown dried herbs and garlic hanging from the ceiling.  Sadly this has yet to eventuate, I seem to have inhabited … Continue reading

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