I forgot I’d planted beans. I like purple vegetables, especially when they’re as productive as the “King of the Blues” runner beans. Think the other ones are Blue Lake Runners. I maybe got ten beans, on the two plants that appeared of the eight beans I sowed. The purple ones? All fifteen seeds grew into [...]
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I forgot about the garden.
Posted in Growing on April 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Toms!
Posted in Growing on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Oh hello late-summer, suddenly you are upon us. Last week I visited my old house to find 5lbs of tomatoes waiting for me. The week before I’d picked only 15oz (I’m using imperial because that’s my bench-top scales) The tomatoes in my own garden are still mostly green, but that’s good really – not too [...]
scatty harvest
Posted in Growing on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My brain is a little absent at present. I feel a bit ‘out to lunch’. My brother is getting married next week and there are quite a few things I need to do to my dress before I wear it, but instead I am fiddling about in the garden doing things wrong. Like, pulling up [...]
Broadly Speaking
Posted in Growing on October 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I have to get rid of the picture of the Nanaimo Bars from the top of the page. I’m not eating sugar at present, and every time I have thought about putting some project up I am confronted with the memory of their deliciousness. It is unbearable. (But not eating sugar has, on the whole, [...]
Beans!
Posted in Growing on September 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Beans! They like to grow! Beans! I planted them too early! Beans! They needed some place to go! So I dug a little trench in this warm corner, lined it with newspaper, filled it with compost and separated the egg carton. (I planted the rest of the borlotti out back between the pean (pea-bean) plants [...]
Shout outs to all the carrots down there!
Posted in Growing on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
These have been in the ground for months. Months. I planted them in March, perhaps, and it is only in the last week or so that they’ve really taken off. At Standard Issue Paekakariki Magic Hour, I went to retrieve the washing in the last of the sunshine and thought ‘ooh, those carrot tops are [...]
Walking plants
Posted in Growing on July 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Hello, did everything in this part of the garden get up and leave? Sort of. They have moved to a happier home, free of black plastic, with good drainage and more shelter. This part of the garden is my favourite – I built it after I made the other four raised beds, and just layered [...]
Carrots!
Posted in Growing on May 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
‘Paris Market’ variety. I sowed two rows of carrots in January and only five germinated, all in the same spot. The eight rows I have planted since, in another part of the garden, have mostly started on the up. This time I should have some red carrots too – none of them germinated last time. [...]
Speaking of autumn and sweaters…
Posted in Growing, Sewing on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I cracked into the largest pumpkin from the plant growing in the compost when we moved in. It is quite possibly the best looking pumpkin I have ever met – nice colour, a bit juicy, healthy through and through… you can even see it glistening here. Glistening!… and all for absolutely no work whatsoever! I’ll [...]
D-I-Y Yourself Yourself
Posted in Growing on May 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday, I somehow managed to make this all by myself: a corner fence bean-climbing wall and wind buffer. This is my garlic bed (with rogue pumpkins popping up), and I have some broad beans sprouting in a tray in the shed – they need some place to go. So I dragged two pallets up [...]
