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August 24 2010
raised beds
We have 3 new ones for next season, hopefully one more to come 
Planning to give over the whole allotment bit at the bottom of the garden to potatoes next year, with the chives, rhubarb and some other bits (maybe leeks? nasturtiums?) for biodiversity.
the four big beds, all made of reclaimed wood and old tiles from the roof
It’s been really noticable this year that the more food we grow, the smaller are our shopping bills, also much more work, but it’s very joyful
So now, my baby bed in detail…
just created
It’s in “the hot place”, a sunbathing area of near tropical climes, the place of the toolbox of lettuce (actually mixed salad leaves this year) with house walls to the North and East, shelter from trees and shrubs all round and refelective light walls too – I think I could probably lay cookies out to bake there on a hot day!
All the beds are layered up thus:
a layer of kitchen compost, should be thicker really but wanted to get this one going
seaweed from the beach, mainly kelp
4 growbags chucked in the top
Having learned the propensity of lettuce to survive even the fiercest winters I have planted winter density seeds in there and also garlic round the edges. There may be something unsightly done with bubble wrap and wire as it gets colder.
and randomly:
blackcurrant and apple pie
oatly less artistically arranged this time… we highly recommend growing blackcurrants – the abundance! the easy jam making! the easy freezing! the gorgeous smoothies… and pies…
and a mother sheep feeding lambs behind barbed wire:
beautiful horns she has
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August 05 2010
preserving
redcurrants and rosemary awaiting sugar
What a bumper year it’s been for the currants – were having berried up green smoothies daily, there are lots in freezer which will extend the berry smoothie season and it’s looking to be a very abundant bramble year too. Last year we gathered quite a lot for the freezer as well as smoothie-ing them fresh. At least I thought we’d gathered a lot until I met a man in the woods with 3 huge bucket loads of them. He must have spent all day picking. Maybe for jam? I really want to try preserving in different ways this year so we can eat the home grown stuff in winter too. So we made strawberry jam as mentioned, and then moved onto:
redcurrant and rosemary jelly for savoury things
This was inspired by the home baked blog, that mixing of flavours is beautiful! I used Delia’s redcurrant jelly recipe with quite a few rosemary sprigs thrown in and then used the same basic technique to make:
blackcurrant jelly
which is wonderful – what a sensational taste blackcurrants do have!
Cooking on the stove this morning is Apple and Ginger Chutney from the Cranks recipe book with the apples from the bike ride heavily supplemented with ones from our trees and our own onions in there too Adapted recipe on the sauces page.
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August 24 2010
raised beds
We have 3 new ones for next season, hopefully one more to come Planning to give over the whole allotment bit at the bottom of the garden to potatoes next year, with the chives, rhubarb and some other bits (maybe leeks? nasturtiums?) for biodiversity.
the four big beds, all made of reclaimed wood and old tiles from the roof
It’s been really noticable this year that the more food we grow, the smaller are our shopping bills, also much more work, but it’s very joyful
So now, my baby bed in detail…
just created
It’s in “the hot place”, a sunbathing area of near tropical climes, the place of the toolbox of lettuce (actually mixed salad leaves this year) with house walls to the North and East, shelter from trees and shrubs all round and refelective light walls too – I think I could probably lay cookies out to bake there on a hot day!
All the beds are layered up thus:
a layer of kitchen compost, should be thicker really but wanted to get this one going
seaweed from the beach, mainly kelp
4 growbags chucked in the top
Having learned the propensity of lettuce to survive even the fiercest winters I have planted winter density seeds in there and also garlic round the edges. There may be something unsightly done with bubble wrap and wire as it gets colder.
and randomly:
blackcurrant and apple pie
oatly less artistically arranged this time… we highly recommend growing blackcurrants – the abundance! the easy jam making! the easy freezing! the gorgeous smoothies… and pies…
and a mother sheep feeding lambs behind barbed wire:
beautiful horns she has
Related posts:
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