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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Pumpkins, Halloween and Stingy Jack!
October is the month in which we ‘grow your own’ gardeners harvest our pumpkins and winter squashes, yet for children they look forward to Halloween; a time for trick or treating round the streets in fancy costumes dressed up as … Continue reading
Posted in Information
Tagged jack the lantern, jack-o-lantern, potatoes, pumpkin. halloween, swede, turnips, vegetable
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Vegetable fraud!
Have you ever bought fruit and vegetables from your local supermarket and tried to pass them off as your own home grown produce? Well, I have to admit that I was very tempted to do such a thing today. Rest … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Garden Vegetable and Chicken soup
I tend to be happiest at the moment when I’m either tinkering in the garden, weeding and tending my plants or baking and cooking in my kitchen. I’m ecstatic when I can combine the two! Harvesting produce out of my … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Recipes
Tagged Allotment, carrots, celery, chicken, Chilli, containers, frozen peas, garden, harvesting, leeks, onion, pallets, parsnips, peas, potatoes, pots, raised beds, recycled, runner beans, soup, stock cube, vegetables
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Winter wonders
As the clocks go back at the end of this month, and night time falls a little earlier, many grow your own gardeners believe that there’s not much that they can actually grow now and prefer to cover their beds … Continue reading
Sweetcorn Relish
Keeping with the preserving and pickling theme that I seem to be writing a lot about at the minute, I thought that I would try making sweetcorn relish using the sweetcorn that I had stored in the freezer. There were … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged freezer, Mrs Beeton, mustard seeds, pickles, preserve, relish, sweetcorn, vinegar
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I need your help!!
Good news! There is a possiblity that I will have the opportunity to write articles about my fruit and veg growing escapades with my local press! In order for this to become reality, firstly I have to submit examples of … Continue reading
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Spot light on……Onions
Onions are a staple ingredient in most peoples cooking and are one of the easiest vegetables to grow. Many allotment plots include rows of onions as part of the course. Now is the time of year to think about planting … Continue reading
Spot light on ….. Potatoes
Potatoes are a member of the solanaceae family, shared also with tomatoes and aubergines. They vary widely in variety, texture and size and are easily grown in the ground or suitable sized container on your patio. We all have our … Continue reading
Posted in Spot light on......
Tagged blight, chitting, containers, first early, main crop potatoes, potato recipes, potatoes, sacks, seed potatoes, tubers
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Green Chilli Jam
After having to harvest a vast amount of green chillies from my garden a few days ago due to the impending frost, I was in a quandary as to what I could do with them. A colleague had the idea … Continue reading
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