The Other Half and the boys picked another 1.5kg of strawberries this evening, with around the same number yet to ripen. The first harvest almost entirely went into jam making but these will all be eaten fresh—on their own, accompanied by vanilla kissel (made this evening and chilling ready for tomorrow), with chocolate ice cream [...]
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Tag Archives: Soft fruit
Feeling jammy…
17 July, 2008
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We’ve been keeping a close eye on the strawberries for the past week as most of the plants were heavy with fruit and waiting for a good splash of sunlight to ripen them. It’s important to pick the first and heaviest crop at just the right moment for jam-making, while also denying the birds their [...]
Read moreToday in the vegetable patch…
29 June, 2008
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It’s been a while since I posted an update on the state of the vegetable patch, so I nipped out after dinner this evening to take a few photos. Most of the salad vegetables are doing well, although a couple of varities of lettuce took a long time to germinate (four to five weeks in [...]
Read moreTwo boars gone
17 May, 2008
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Brock and Spot, two of our nine-week-old Berkshire boars, have just left for their new home down in Montrose. It was a pleasure doing business with their buyer as he paid the original asking price of £55, even though I offered to cut it to the £50 we’re asking for the gilts whose sale fell [...]
Read moreHow does our garden grow?
18 April, 2008
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The Wee ‘Un and I emptied the last of the five muck boxes today, which is both good and bad. It’s good because we’ve shifted about three cubic metres (105 cubic feet) of well-rotted muck, weighing around five tonnes, out to where it will do most good. It’s bad because I now have to turn [...]
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