Tales From Our First Allotment
As I may have said before, I'm very excited about having tomatoes this year that are actually going red! I'm also very excited that we seem to be getting a good crop both in the greenhouse and outside in the beds (there are quite a few outside because I couldn't bring myself to kill the …
Taking shelter in the greenhouse during a sudden downpour. There's not much room in here but it's been a great thin to get me focused on tidying up the tomatoes and aubergines. I'm still regularly having to pinch out sideshoots and I keep finding mammoth ones on the tomatoes that I can't believe I missed... …
Harvested my first ever aubergine and was so excited I turned it straight into lunch! Aubergine Parmagiano Recipe: Ingredients: Aubergine Chopped tomatoes Spring onion Moazarella Oregano Salt Olive Oil Method: Slice the aubergine in half lengthways Cut into the flesh-side of the aubergine in a cross-hatch pattern, drizzle with oil and sprinkle with a …
The tomatoes are starting to turn red And the aubergines are getting bigger every day
I've been watching the Red Duke garlic grow since we picked it up free in at the walled garden in Helmsley. It's not something I've ever tried to grow before (and I've never grown onions which I think are similar) so it's been interesting to watch. The first weird thing that happened was that after …
Bean Allotmenting 