Plot 79 – The website and blog…
Posted in Food & Cooking, Growing on Aug 31st, 2009
For quite a few weeks now we have been picking and eating runner beans from the allotment. Very nice! There are still signs of a lot more to come and we may end up freezing a load if we end up with too many to eat.
I know that we need to plant a lot more [...]
It is the question that a lot of people ask and very rarely get a useful response to. There is the old trick of using washing up liquid or chilli powder and soaking sponges in vinegar to deter most pests. Do they really work?
From experience I can safely say… No!
The only way I found of [...]
Posted in General, Growing, Poultry, Sowing on Aug 11th, 2009
Everyday has been another working day… Hardly any allotment time although it doesn’t look too bad!
We’re starting to get a few runner beans on the plants, not many sadly but that teaches me for buying seed from a man in a shed! I’ve learnt and will buy seed from a garden centre next year.
The carrots [...]