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2007-10-07T14:18:00.000+01:00

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

and we got a basset at last

we got married !!!

2007-07-07T17:28:00.000+01:00

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

oinions

2007-06-30T13:48:00.000+01:00

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

2007-06-24T22:26:00.000+01:00

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!!!!!!

2007-06-16T16:38:00.000+01:00

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

2007-06-03T19:18:00.000+01:00

2007-05-27T12:40:00.000+01:00

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!

2007-05-18T20:25:00.001+01:00

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

2007-05-06T18:00:00.000+01:00

Globe artichokes

We went to the bassett breeders today

2007-04-29T18:34:00.000+01:00

2007-04-29T18:33:00.000+01:00

2007-04-29T16:53:00.000+01:00

I have a new hat!

Bassetts for Mary

Bassett

Allotment

Carrots are in buckets this year to try and keep the fly off them, we have 4 different varieties

Nigella

Apple blossom

2007-04-22T17:29:00.000+01:00

early spuds in
main crop spuds in

2007-04-21T13:08:00.000+01:00

OOOOIonionsaaAAAAHHH

Sweet Corn, radish, PAK Coi, Chinese Cabage

El Rotovator

Last year leek, yum yum in my tum tum

2007-04-13T18:49:00.000+01:00

well we are back, its been ages, and the pace was a total dump, the poly tunnel has blow apart, so ive had to move it down the hill, and everythhing was over grown and messy.
weve had one weekend in it and already its ready to plant up again, although the poly tunney still neads loads of works.

No fotos yet , trying to sort out new computer with help from our friends in india.

photos over the weekend

Cheers
Stew and Frith..
ps we seem to be getting loads of spam as comments on our blog..some very unsavoury stuff, not sure how to report it, but will try and get it removed

2006-08-12T10:17:00.000+01:00

Leek Alliums from the abandoned allotment over the way.pretty but they stink of onions

Free Veg

The proud rotovater

2006-07-11T22:20:00.000+01:00

Frith, nice tash.

First Beetroot and cucumbers

Broad bean flowers and a few black fly, i keep picking the tips but they keep comming back.

A sneaky peak at Roys allotment,hes got peas, brocolli, sweed, leeks onions, turnips, potatoes.

Every thing ship shape and bristol fasion.

Its a plane!!

Its a plane!!

The lazy place to water.

2006-07-11T21:51:00.000+01:00

Water

Water

Tomato

Peas

Yellow Corgettes

GReen corgettes

Massive Pumpkin Plant and tiny leeks

The allotment from the top

First Pepper

Same chillie plant that was in last few blogs...check out how many chillies there are on it now

2006-07-11T21:22:00.000+01:00

Its been a while again, ive been tiling the bath room and watching more world cup but the garden is blooming.
Tomatoes are green, these are gardeners delight

These tomatoes are green cant remember what flafour they are but they are big.

The obergine are getting aphids and white fly, but im speaying them off every night.

chillies grown from seed are getting too big for the pots, also in the fore ground the butter nut squash, need to go into the ground.

Baby black bird from our back yard, i think next doors cat has been sucking on it.

Our tree fern in the back yard isdoing grand after a winters frost.

Im doing grand after a winters frost!

This was last week what the cucumber were like.....

This the cucumbers today wow

More tomatoes

2006-06-18T16:09:00.000+01:00

Tomatoes are in flower and the polytunnel is starting to smell like papas old green house, im sure he would be proud.

The basil is massive, we are going to make some pesto, today we got loads of different types of basil to try out, this one seems to like the poly tunnel...smells lush too

This is an obergien flower they are doing really well, and will need staking soon. There seems to be loads of flowers, really nice colour.

The first chilli this is a bishops hat....i think....very hot.....i think...we will have to see.

The baby chilly plants are getting a bit thicker...i dont really know what type these are but they should be long and red.

I have 3 cucombers, 2 in a grow bag and one in the ground, 1 in the grow bag is massive, one is tiny, the one in the ground is medium sized, I have built a little trelis for it to build round, and the cucombers havewond their tendrill around them already.they have little tiny cucumbers comming already.

2006-06-17T21:58:00.000+01:00

Its been a while, world cup what can i say....

The marigold are planted quite extravagantly between the carrots, but they are all different colours and look pretty cool..

like i said difffferentttt

broad beans .........haway with the black fly...ive not seen any but i learn it in a book.

frith got me a grow yer own indian food thing for my birthday a few month ago that had chilies in it, i planted them in 1 pot , they came on really well and scince we have planted each of them in their own pot, we now have 35 chilli plants....get in

this was taken last week, scine then (as you will see tomorrow they are like elephants ears)

PumPkin...they are the ones that grow gigantic bring on the horse shit

Runner beans. getting massive

the spuds are doing grand but then how else could they do under the direction of an irish expert. We haev been soiling up today....is that leagal?

2006-06-03T17:32:00.000+01:00

normal view from the top rubarb is doing my head in now, i want to cut it down there is only so much rubarb crumble you can eat in a year. maybe i can distill it ;)

Lets see how this changes over the next few weeks, Roy from next door helped me cut the side shots from the tomatoes today i get the feeling that he misses them a bit his green house blew down last year i hope our polu tunnel lasts a bit longer
these are the chillies, peppers, obergienes its like our own personal italy

We have loads of different tomates

gardeners delight
romania
yellow
secillia
etc
ect
tce ......i think i will have lots of tomatoes.....right at the end is cucomber.

TA DA...we are very proud of our little shak we decided to put put it up on the windest day of the year, fritha bearly blew away a couple of times, and i got cramp from using the staple gun to much...and bumpted my head about 20 times..but it was worth it.

I think the heat might be getting to me

Fritha looks like shes just had a really nice sweet...either that or shes asleep....frith hope that she might grow a bit in the poly tunnel.

whats this space i dont know what im going to do with all my food in september.

2006-05-29T19:05:00.000+01:00

Our little grass patch is ready for sitting on

Pumpkin

lettus

peas

shallots

Behold the first spud

Brocolli is out and doing really well

The final french beans have gone in beside 2 pumpkins

We have put loads of twigs in with the peas on Roy's advise, stops the birds from eating them and makes them easy to pick, they are comming on well.

Our little spot in the sun with the herbs

polly tunnel will be finished tomorrow weather permitting

Frith fixing the cement for the posts

2006-05-21T16:12:00.000+01:00

how it looks from the top

We have sunk some plant pots into the ground in the middle of the runner beans so the water goes straight to the root

The runner beans are comming on well, but the slugs have helped them selves to a couple

The start of the poly tunnel we will try and get it finnished this week if ic an borrow a decent drill

Carrots and marrigolds to try and stop the carrot fly

Beetroot loads of

Ive planted the chard in the middle of the other potatoes

The oinions are comming up fast

The lettus is comming up i reckon we will be able to have our first salad in the next couple of weeks

These are the corgetts green and yellow 15 alltogether

The romana spuds are in along side some rocket inbetween the drills as we are quickly running out of planting space.

The brocolli has been planted out, its inside the drain pipes

Its been a while, weather has been a bit wet all week, but we got loads done today.

2006-05-09T20:24:00.000+01:00

Its been a lush day and at last the spuds have arrived, i couldnt be bothered chitting them so they have been stuck in the ground with a good smattering of rooster booster (chicken shit pellots).

This is a pic of the little spot at the top of the plot where we can survey the allotment...our kingdom

The runner beans going in..i think we might have to many...any recipies for runner bean pickle are welcome

Im trying to level the top bed so that we can start putting the poly tunnel in.

This is a rhubarb flower looks like monkey brains to me.

Behold....the spuds, vanessa, maris piper and charlotte

runner beans

It almost looks like i know what im doing, I have replace my head with a large bale of straw.

Beans beans beans the more you eat the more you parp

2006-05-05T20:30:00.000+01:00

the plot from the door

Fritha infront of the rubarb

Basil

Runner Beans going Rajy Bongo!!!

French Beans

Beetroot

Carrots

Corggetts going mental mental chicken oriental

Swiss Chard

Purple Sprouting Broccoli

2006-04-25T20:37:00.000+01:00

All three terraces in their glory.

Still waiting for the spuds 8(

Make shift tomato green houses.

Tomates going in.

The three cold frames helping us catch up with the slow to start spring

The Herbs, cumfery, lavender, camelmile, garlic, marajam, tyme

The start of the seeds, this is brocolli and swiss chard

We also got beans, leeks, pumpkins, lettus, chillies, peppers, Peas, garlic chives, Corgetts, and dalias in.

Lettus, beans and oinions in

2006-04-23T19:59:00.000+01:00

The digging is done all the terraces are in and we have 4 beds to plant. The onions are in, Shalots and Red Baron. Feels Good.

2006-04-22T17:31:00.000+01:00

The Rotovator

Got the terrace in today on to patches, looks ok, but the polythene donated from next door on his insistance that it woould save the wood. I think he thinks we are a bit fusy and poncy about our plot, but hes a great help. I think tomorrow we will get some oinions in weather and hang over permiting.

The plot is changing loads, the little shed has been cleared out today, the last guy who owned it must have had a thing about nails and plastic bags, the whole shed was full of them.
Frith has built a path from all the old briks that we have dug up looks pretty good. I cant believe that we (mostly frith) have managed to get the whole thing dug in 1 week.

2006-04-21T22:10:00.000+01:00

Well it would seem that the old pair have throughen a spade into the ring, with bogtrotter senior blog.

ive seen your soil looks good.........in the dark that is....

consider the gauntlet thrown.

Today tip.....get a bigger wheel barrow.

Hawaaaaay the lads...& lass's

watch for tomorrows blog...senior

2006-04-20T22:22:00.000+01:00

Its a bit over grown and theres tonnes of asbestos cement lying about, but its ours, well the councils but im not giving it back.

This is a pic of the first day, hopfully it will change a bit every few weeks.

We started digging proper on the 16th of april, and then again on the 17th and the 18th and the 19th and the 20th. This blog is just so that i can track the progress my self.

This the view from the top of our plot, its been there for ever...thats the sea in the distance.

Getting there 8)