Month: December 2010

The other day I received an email from one of my favourite suppliers, Garden Organic, suggesting that I gave someone for Christmas an adopted vegetable from the Heritage Seed Library. While your money goes into funding the conservation of a heritage veggie variety, the recipient of the present receives an awareness raising card; in some cases, when the…

… came back yesterday when I cooked Spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino with my own garlic and chilli, and tonight I’m having three roasted veg, two of which are my own: potatoes and Jerusalem artichokes. It feels good to cook with my own produce – so much so that I do not seem to feel the frustration of wilted, frostbitten and otherwise dead crops, the…

I have uploaded a few pictures of the plot, the last of autumn…

After posting about “winter blues”, I have been thinking about why I am not so keen on gardening right now, and came up with a list of possible factors. First of all, I think I have associated the allotment with British discrimination of foreigners. I really do not think someone can do anything good when they feel…

Trying to shake my winter blues, I have spent most of the day in the garden doing the odd jobs I have left for so long, and at the allotment. First activity: trim back the lavender… ohhh, looks so much better now: it is one of those very small and extremely rewarding jobs in the garden. Then,…

… I have been working from home for a couple of days now, and, when going out to empty the bin, I noticed that my sweetpeas are still alive, despite the freeze. I thought they were supposed to die (after all in my experience they have died for much less before) but no, these ones I planted…