Monthly Archives: November 2020

Veg plot 2020: A little more coriander

Posted on November 27, 2020 by james

Having done a bit of research it appears that coriander plants create new shoots from the leaf axils and can therefore be cut back to just above a leaf axil after which they’ll regrow from that new shoot. This is … Continue reading →

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Veg plot 2020: Fifth pick of winter salads

Posted on November 23, 2020 by james

Only eight days since my last pick, but we needed salad for dinner this evening so I went out and took pretty much everything I thought I could. The coriander is getting rather leggy. I don’t know if that’s just … Continue reading →

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And here’s my turned compost

Posted on November 23, 2020 by james

The cardboard on top is what’s left of the stuff that was stopping everything falling out of the front of each of the bins. I thought I’d just leave it there to break down. I don’t think it looks too … Continue reading →

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Turning compost

Posted on November 22, 2020 by james

It seems to be a matter of debate as to whether turning compost is really necessary or not, but this weekend I’ve turned ours just to try to make sure it’s properly mixed up — there were some quite sludgy … Continue reading →

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Grow your own loofah

Posted on November 19, 2020 by james

It’s probably been thirty years since I last saw a loofah. Perhaps they’ve fallen out of fashion a bit. Today however I discovered that it is possible to grow your own. (I have to admit that I hadn’t really internalised … Continue reading →

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Winter salads costs

Posted on November 15, 2020 by james

I recalled whilst writing my last post that I intended to work out the costs for producing the winter salads. I’ve therefore been back through all my order confirmation emails and here they are: Compost £6.00 Mushroom trays £19.50 Newspaper … Continue reading →

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Veg plot 2020: Fourth pick of winter salads

Posted on November 15, 2020 by james

My wife asked me to pick some salad today to go with our meal this evening. I was going to leave it a little longer as growth has quite obviously slowed down now and I suspect we’re not far off … Continue reading →

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Today I have “chainsaw back”

Posted on November 15, 2020 by james

Last winter we had a large beech tree cut down. It could easily have been close to 100 years old, but there wasn’t any way to tell as it was also hollow. The base of the tree had started to … Continue reading →

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And now the pasteurising is also done

Posted on November 12, 2020 by james

Pasteurising 140+ bottles twenty at a time certainly takes a while. But happily it is now all done and I just need to find somewhere to store all those bottles for the next six months or so whilst we drink … Continue reading →

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Finally finished bottling…

Posted on November 10, 2020 by james

After six or seven hours over the last three days I’ve finally filled the last bottle with apple juice. One hundred and forty five 75cl bottles, to be precise, so almost 109 litres or a shade under 24 UK gallons. … Continue reading →

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