Started chitting potatoes 2022
Jan 10, 2022
Started chitting 18 (6kg) of Charlotte potatoes from the Potato House
Charlotte Potatoes chitting
Raspberry jam
Dec 02, 2021
Makes about five 340g jars of bright red tangy jam. Time needed: about an hour if fruit is already frozen otherwise start te day before.
This recipe calls for the fruit to be frozen as an alternative to the usual method of stewing down before the sugar is added. The effect is the same; the cells are broken down, but freezing is kinder and helps keep the color of the fruit.
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Broad Beans Showing
Nov 17, 2021
First coulple of Broad Beans just showing
Broad Beans Sown
Oct 28, 2021
Sowed a row of Broad Beans
Onion Soup
Oct 21, 2021
Makes about 2.5l of rich dark onion soup. By using green Oxo instead of beef stock it is vegetarian. The soup takes a good 2 hours working time plus hour to simmer.
Scale down as needed.
100g butter 50ml oil 4 cloves garlic 1.5kg onions, prepared weight 2l vegetable stock ie 12 green oxo cubes in 2l water 500ml red wine Melt 100g butter in a 5l pan along with 50ml oil Add 1.
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Autumn onions started
Oct 12, 2021
Set out Senshyu onions on 20cm spacing both ways. Three rows then 50cm walkway.
Raked in about 10g m-2 of 15,15,15 fertilizer.
Dibbed a hole twice as deep as needed and backfilled with loose soil so the roots don’t have to penitrate compacted soil. Added a tiny pinch of Root Grow in each hole
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Blackthorn blossom is out 2021
Mar 22, 2021
Blackthorn blossom
Onions kept from June
Feb 01, 2021
Onions seem to keep well indoors
Onions from June
Tomatoes and Cucumbers have cotyledons
Jan 12, 2021
Twelve days after sowing. Tomatoes and cucumbers have full-size cotyledons. First aubergine just seen (pot on right of picture)
Tomatoes and cucumbers
Floyd Family History
Jan 11, 2021
Notes on Floyd and Wilkinson family history View/Download PDF