After chemo on Friday, yesterday was a bit of a wipe out for me but J wandered off to the allotment first thing to see what the wildlife has allowed us to keep and came back shattered but with a trolley laden with apples, potatoes, squashes, courgettes, carrots and beans plus a lovely bag of tomatoes from a pal. Whilst up there he'd also cleaned up and re-netted the brassicas and tidied away all the dead sweetcorn stalks so he was really grateful for the lift home from the tomato-donating friend too! Walking through town he'd stumbled across an Isle of Wight Garlic stall at the Food Festival and picked up a new batch of seed garlic. For the last few years we seem to have hit a problem with voles or similar undermining our alliums so he's hit on a new ploy:
Wish us luck - we really really need a new harvest of garlic!
This morning's job for me (before I doze back off again anyway!) has been bean sorting - the second harvest for some of the frames and hopefully at least two more to come if the weather holds for the next few weeks. Once they've finished air-drying they'll join the others in their jars - these store brilliantly for months if not years and make winter meals so much more interesting.
Hello, thank you for leaving a lovely comment on my blog. Your allotment sounds wonderful with lots of lovely produce and that is a great idea for growing garlic. I hope you have a better day today:)
Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to comment, due to an upsurge in "odd" comments all comments are moderated. I hope it won't put too many of you off. I think I've also finally fixed the issue that meant we couldn't reply to comments Tx
That's a lot of work to get garlic, lets hope it works.
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Thanks Briony - he's done two more this weekend!
DeleteHello, thank you for leaving a lovely comment on my blog. Your allotment sounds wonderful with lots of lovely produce and that is a great idea for growing garlic. I hope you have a better day today:)
ReplyDeleteThank you Rosie.
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