It’s that time of year when there is an abundance of produce from the garden (as you can see from the tomatoes in pics below). So what do you do with it all? Mostly I find a way to use it. I preserve some things, sun dry others, make delicious home-made soups and there’s [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
Hi there,
here’s the pics from my sauce making. Usually I’d use bigger tomatoes, but my saucing tomatoes didn’t do so well this year. I didn’t have room to plant them in the improved raised bed, so they ended up in very sandy soil.
So I picked about 70% of my ripe Tommy Toes and turned them [...]
Filed under: Recipes on January 28th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Wow, it always thrills me when I see how much produce can come from such a small area! If you’re thinking about organic gardening and don’t know where to start, check out my e-book “Organic Food Gardening for Beginners“.
I picked a heap of my small tomatoes yesterday. Mostly they are “Tommy Toe”, but some are [...]
Filed under: Heirloom on January 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
OK, we’ve hit mid-summer now. I’ve made space for the next succession of lettuce (2 types), spring onions, carrots and radish. By planting at monthly intervals, it means we’ll be enjoying harvesting my organic garden for much longer than if I’d just planted a main crop and left it at that.
The very hot weather we’ve [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Finally, a day under 35 degrees. So I’ve been out removing finished plants. I’ve just pulled out my first block of corn. And the broccoli was starting to flower, so they’ve come out too…. plus a few straggly looking beans.
This has cleared the way for some fresh plantings. I’ll add some “complete D” to the [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 16th, 2008 | 1 Comment »