a weblog with an allotment attached
16 January 2008
For some time I have been planning to grow jerusalem artichokes in one of the perennial beds in the new potager. I’ve heard so much about them and thought they sounded intriguing and delicious. Until recently, however, I had never tasted them and I wasn’t about to order something to take up space […]
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 4:57 pm
26 October 2007
Trying to rein in my seed-buying addiction and exercise some discernment, but there are too many seed catalogues and too many varieties of seed to choose from.
Head hurts.
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 1:31 pm
24 October 2007
Crop rotation is an easy idea to get your head around - in order to make the best use of what nutrients are in your soil and to avoid the build up of disease, move around what you grow where year on year. There are lots of possible crop rotation systems - 3-year, 4-year […]
Filed under: Review & plan, Today's Bible — Clare @ 6:07 pm
4 October 2007
I’ve just ordered my seed potatotes for the coming year from the Organic Gardening Catalogue.
As usual I think I have ordered far too many, but I do have a friend who will take my spares so they won’t go to waste. This year I have ordered a pile of pink fir apple and this Cook’s […]
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 2:30 pm
3 October 2007
Having finished preparing the appropriate bed, I have planted my herbs out in their final positions.
L-R, back to front: rosemary, mint (buried in a large pot to prevent it from taking over); curry plant, thyme; marjoram, chives; sage, variegated sage.
The plan is that this will be a permanent bed which will also contain (to the […]
Filed under: Hard labour, Review & plan — Clare @ 7:34 pm
17 September 2007
Having completed the raised beds (bar the compost) and the shed building (bar the painting) I have been entertaining myself by planning what I might plant where. Knowing myself as I do I think it’s safe to say that the plan I have drawn up will not be stuck to, but it’s a starting […]
Filed under: Potager project, Review & plan — Clare @ 7:34 pm
10 May 2007
It’s true that I have been busy recently, busy enough to teach the local bees a thing or two. And although this has meant that I haven’t had time to visit the plot and do what needs to be done (finish preparing the bean bed, weed all over, tidy up mess and try to […]
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 3:22 pm
22 January 2007
Those of you who are regular readers will know that I’m really something of a horticultural novice. My fingers aren’t green so much as a murky brown. I’m much more likely to kill rather than cultivate the plants under my supervision and what success we have had has been largely down to a […]
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 3:08 pm