Back in May, the boys planted four rows of sunflowers in the front garden. The odds were stacked against them as the soil was still on the cold side, mice and birds took a proportion of the seeds, slugs chomped many of the seedlings that came through, and strong winds snapped several of the plants [...]
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Archive | September, 2009
Blogging for 15 years!
27 September, 2009
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As I was looking through my archives earlier I spotted the date on some of my earliest HTML files—August 1994. They date back to when I came up with the Bowerbird Cafe, a web journal that rambled through food, poetry and anything else that caught my interest. This was in the days before the term [...]
Read moreStoring root vegetables
25 September, 2009
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As well as freezing, pickling and preserving fruit and vegetables, we also store some crops as is. Most root vegetables can be stored in clamps—layered between straw with soil heaped over the top—or in boxes that replicate the effect of clamps by keeping the vegetable cool, slightly damp and away from the air. We used [...]
Read moreSorting tatties
23 September, 2009
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When the boys came home from school I was in the middle of sorting the potatoes I’d lifted today, so I asked them to help. One decided it was more interesting to play with the dog while the other decided it was more interesting to take photos of me working and his brother playing. They [...]
Read morePickling baby beets
20 September, 2009
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After sorting through our harvest of beetroot, we had a good-sized pile of baby beets that were suitable for pickling. Their stalks were removed two inches above the roots, which were thoroughly scrubbed but not peeled. The beets were then boiled in batches for 20 minutes each. While the beets were cooking, the pickle of [...]
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