Sunday, October 07, 2007

Frosso the Basset Hound (Burnvale Yolanda) at 9 weeks old


and we got a basset at last


we got married !!!


Saturday, July 07, 2007

The sun came out to day at last so we managed to get some veg in,carrots turnips
purple spuds


tom tom tom tom tom


tom tom tom


chillies joes long


sweet corn

beetroot


rubarb


pumpkin



corgettts


corgettts


oinions

Saturday, June 30, 2007

GLOBE ARTICHOKE Boil, Oil, DONE.
globe artichoke number 2 its a goody, in the pan as i speak
mmmm come on the toms
view from top, we have some glass over the pumpkins to try and bring them on they are being a little shy
The carrots have done really well to the point where they are a topic of discussion at the local working mens club......apparetnly they are very diffuclt to grow round here
Mounge too rodders
behold our first corgette...let the onslaut begine...bring it on....i almost begrudge buying veg at the supper market at the moment.. i cant wiat to get harvesting...well...i can but im looking forward to it.

from l to r...sweet corn, beet root, beet root,Kill rabi french beans, runner beans, radicio, sweed, purple beans, onions, boloity beans, chinese lettus(higly recommended beautiful in salads and really pretty...oh and some more sweed from roy
Our 3rd glob artiechoke comming ...our second is in the pan as i speak...im going to boil it for an hour in salted heavilly oiled water and and then prepare and stick it in some olive oil for pizzas...higly recommended.
sprouts for chirstmas...loving the weather
Off course last years spuds are still sprouting heither and tither all over the plot...i dont have the heart to pull any of them.
The spud have been loving the rain....mmmm rub the skin off with your thumb, boil for 15 mins and drenche in butter salt and pepper what better a meal surley does not exist.
Cant live in newcastle with our having an abundance of leeks....second planting is nearly ready im going to make a concerted effort to make sure that we have some winter veg this year.
The chillie army marches on....i dont know where im going to put them all....but rest asured everyone is getting chillie sauce for their christmas box.
I love the close ups you can almost smell it.....come on the toms
more toms...my newly obtained irrigation system thanks to the demise of a local garden centre i recently had to survey......recycling i think its called


The tomatoes i think i have 7 varieties.....augherbeans in the foreground. they are staying small silently awaiting some sun

Sunday, June 24, 2007

sorry bassetts again, weve been to another breeder today i think these are the people that are going to give us a puppy in about november whatch this space
awwwwwwww!!!!!!

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Rotovator wining the hat competition
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH a frog and its mating our corrugated tin

augherbergerenes (i think)


radichio



The carrots are doing really well, really chuffed lets hope the dreaded fly stays of them this year




the poly tunnel is up and our tomatoes/obergenes and chillies are settling in although they still seem a little frightened, we have left the stucture a little more open this year to try and stop it getting as hot as last year...although it wont be difficult in this weather







The chillie plant army joes long, yellow sweet, wipits tails, mediterainanian sweet

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Sunday, May 27, 2007

First produce of the season a little bit chewed by the slugs but theres plenty for both of us

Onions are doing really well



Monge Too rodders



Nigella



Alliums





Our first globe artichoke






Spring is still in the air!

Friday, May 18, 2007

Spring flowers in the mountain very beautiful.
A bunch of red fish from the market, cooked straight on the BBQ served with a bit of lemon, nowt like it.


Weve just got back from corfu where we were helping Rotovater Senior with her veg garden, everything we have to grow in a polytunnel grows here like wild fire, in just one week everything grew by tonnes. In Corfu you garden in your Pajamas