Archive for ‘Hard labour’

1 August 2006

Finger lickin’ good

(with apologies to my veggie and vegan readers…)
Here’s a recipe for a wonderful weekday treat. For the full effect, it MUST be a weekday. Roast chicken on a Sunday is all very well, but trust me, there’s something a little bit decadent about enjoying a meal like this on a school night. (You [...]

Filed under: Hard labour, Harvest, Mulch — Clare @ 11:20 pm

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30 July 2006

Courgettes the size of footballs.

With hearts in mouths we ventured down to the lottie today, terrified that thigh-high weeds were all we would see, and although our plot is full of thriving bindweed and very thirsty crops, what we saw was not so very disheartening.
We stayed only for about an hour, filling up two bags with weeds, but we [...]

Filed under: Hard labour, Harvest — Clare @ 7:20 pm

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14 May 2006

Tempting fate?

(Or, ‘The unshakeable optimism of the allotment gardener as she invites frost disaster’.)
As rain stopped play yesterday we took advantage of the dry weather today and finished preparing our sweetcorn bed. We have now covered it with plastic and planted out the first batch of sweetcorn seedlings through holes cut in it. Perhaps [...]

Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 5:12 pm

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11 May 2006

In bocca al lupo

Today I have a day off work which has actually coincided with gorgeous sunshiney weather. Alas, I have a day off work because I have my Italian oral exam in the early evening.
Still, I have been taking advantage of the conditions to plant out my strawberries in the garden while practising my presentation: “Vorrei [...]

Filed under: Hard labour, Italiano — Clare @ 3:09 pm

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8 May 2006

Bitten by the allotment bug

Yesterday down at the allotment I really started to feel that our plans were taking shape. We rolled back one of the sheets of black plastic and marked out what will be the squash and sweetcorn beds then raked the paths flat (kind of). If all goes according to plan then all the [...]

Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 7:55 pm

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1 May 2006

It’s bloody hard work this skiving business.

In spite of having work to do today (Public holday? Sorry? What’s that?), I’ve been bitten by the gardening bug, having sowed my squash seeds yesterday as well as further sweetcorn and french beans (that’s them on the bottom shelf).

Consequently, today I’ve been a bad, bad girl and instead of getting on with all the [...]

Filed under: Hard labour, Sowings, Today's Bible — Clare @ 5:58 pm

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29 April 2006

Bank holiday weekend bliss

What a lovely day!
We’ve not been down the allotment (saving that for tomorrow), but boy have we been busy in the garden. The lawn got its first mow (which got me singing The First Cut is the Deepest…) and everything else had a general tidy up. I’ve potted on my tomatoes so they are [...]

Filed under: Hard labour, Sowings — Clare @ 7:55 pm

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24 April 2006

We returned on Friday from our lovely holiday in Lucca and have been down the allotment every day since so far. Alas, after today that will stop as it’s back to train journeys and long working days for me.
Still, we are feeling optimistic and quite confident at the moment, not to mention buoyed by [...]

Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 4:20 pm

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