The diary of two novice gardeners and chicken keepers
Posted in Allotments on Jul 15th, 2010
It’s that time of year again. Time to pick the fruit and make the jams and jellies. To date I have made four jars of red gooseberry, one of yellow gooseberry and six jars of blackcurrant. I have already used up all my saved jars and freezer boxes and there is still a load to pick. [...]
Posted in Allotments on Feb 18th, 2010
Today I bought an apple tree from Aldi. It is an Elstar, an offspring of the Golden Delicious. I bought this cultivar before and it died. However the original cost £25.99 and this one only cost £3.99 so there is not so much to risk.
(Elstar is a crunchy apple. The flesh is lemon-white. In most Golden [...]
Posted in Allotments on Jan 26th, 2010
I have bought another Blueberry bush to grow alongside our original one. I have chosen Blueberry Darrow from Wiggly Wigglers. They say it bears the largest blueberry known and is a late season, self fertile compact bush. It will be planted in ericaceous compost in a tall pot to stand next to our other one.
The [...]
Posted in Allotments on Nov 10th, 2006
We planted some strawberry runners donated to us by Joe. Had to wait two weeks before we dug up the potatoes. Disappointing harvest but we were still excited.
Sat 7th – When we arrived at the plot the gazebo had been blown over. Trevor said a mini tornado swept accross the site and caused quite a [...]
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