Squash (Cucurbita genus) We have grown squash for a number of years and usually get a reasonable number of gourds. For 2012 and 2013 I have grown them in HugelKultur beds under-planted with green manures and grown up over a wood and rope structure. I have fed them using a compost tea made from comfrey and […]
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Rumtopf
Like many people across the country we have had a fruit glut this year and we have been looking at different ways of storing the fruit for the winter. One exciting way of storing fruit is immersing it in alcohol, we have made sloe gin in the past but this year we are experimenting with […]
Garden Diary – 11 August 2013
Today I have lifted some International Kidney potatoes which are much larger than I expected, there is almost no damage to any of the tubers, we’ll be trying some of them tomorrow. In their place I have planted some Perpetual Spinach to see if we can get a crop before winter.
Garden Diary – 10 August 2013
The summer raspberries are almost at an end, they have been very good this year. As each plant is cleared of it’s fruit I am cutting them out to make space for the new growth that will produce next year’s fruit. It will also give me a chance to repair and reinforce the supports for […]
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Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
Small Tortoiseshell butterfly (Aglais urticae) on Michaelmas Daisy Michaelmas Daisies seem very popular with this butterfly, we have seen it repeatedly return to feed on the flower giving lots of opportunities to photograph it.The Small Tortoiseshell is one of our most familiar butterflies and used to be one of the most common but in recent years […]
Tomatoes
Tomato This year (2013) we have grown tomatoes inside the greenhouse and outside on one of our mini-Hugel beds. The variety on the Mini-Hugel beds are Tumbling Tom and they are doing better than the ones in the greenhouse!
