Archive for ‘Harvest’

4 July 2006

Gourmet plans

Having pretty much finished the last of my broad beans, I am now ready to share my disappointment in them. It seems like sacrilege after the sweat and toil involved in the journey from seed to plate to say this, but say it I will.
Last year my broad beans were a product of an [...]

Filed under: Harvest, Review & plan — Clare @ 7:15 pm

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19 June 2006

This much I know

There is a five mile exlcusion zone for vampires around our part of Kings Heath since we started pulling up our garlic and roasting the cloves - it’s that good.

Filed under: Harvest, Mulch, This much I know — Clare @ 9:11 pm

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18 June 2006

The Broad Bean Sermon…

…is the name of a poem I recently discovered by Les Murray. It’s rather lengthy so I won’t quote it all, but as I’ve been harvesting some of my own beans today a stanza or two seems apt:

Beanstalks in any breeze, are a slack church parade
without belief, saying trespass against us in unison,
recruits in [...]

Filed under: Harvest, Mulch — Clare @ 7:55 pm

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14 June 2006

Back in the saddle

My Granny in Ireland (Mum’s Mum) died very suddenly about a fortnight ago. It’s also not really that long (less than a year) that my Grandma (Dad’s Mum - but you might have figured that out) died. Since we got back from the funeral and associated events I haven’t felt much like putting myself [...]

Filed under: Harvest, Mulch — Clare @ 11:11 pm

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13 September 2005

And the beans go on…

Much as we adore french beans, our consumption simply can’t keep up with the amounts that our small amount of plants are providing. Blimey, but they’re prolific. We’ve already given loads away to our friends Sally & Richard, and more to our pals in Nottingham, Phil & Viv. I’ve become some kind [...]

Filed under: Harvest — Clare @ 3:58 pm

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7 August 2005

Booker T & the MGs

Yesterday we had an experience of the politics of local allotments. Reg, our site Secretary had called a meeting to announce his resignation from the committee which consisted of only him. I think this is supposed to be more momentous than I found it. We were also visited by Chris, the new [...]

Filed under: Harvest — Clare @ 9:12 pm

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5 August 2005

Pulling up potatoes at dusk

After I finished work this evening we both went a-digging. Armed with our wheelbarrow and some potato sacks generously given to me by a friendly greengrocer in King’s Heath I decided to finish pulling up the potatoes.

My under gardener was busy taking photographs to start, leaving all the hard work to me. He [...]

Filed under: Harvest — Clare @ 9:49 pm

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29 July 2005

Adam Ant and the Tornadoes

You might have heard that there was some pretty extreme weather down my way yesterday. There is chaos round here, a number of people have been hurt and some homes will have to be demolished. We’re just far enough south to have missed the worst of it. On our street you wouldn’t [...]

Filed under: Harvest — Clare @ 1:36 pm

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