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Category Archives: Smallholding
Saving cucumber seeds
I’ll be saving the seeds from this cucumber for next year 😀
More apple pressing
I spent a few days in mid-October pressing more apples, including one batch of around quarter of a tonne that I had to split over two days. Last year that would have been easy in a single day ? Even … Continue reading
101 uses for old honey jars, #37
Saving tomato seeds. Non-F1 varieties, obviously. Tomatoes don’t generally cross-pollinate, so it’s possible to just pick a ripe fruit and keep the seeds. Given that lots of tomato seeds have become quite expensive and that I might grow as many … Continue reading
Yesterday’s tomato harvest
They’ve done so well this year and there are still plenty more to come. The cherry tomatoes in the middle are Garnet. I’ve eaten a decent handful almost every lunchtime since July. They’ve been so sweet this year. Makes all … Continue reading
One time only
Ladies and gentlemen… Allow me to introduce the “combat cucumber”. It’s a bit like dwarf bread for people who live out in the sunshine. If you threw it, it might actually come back to you, but you’d not want to … Continue reading
There may be trouble ahead…
Whilst watering the polytunnel today I noticed that a pepper and a tomato had been subjected to nibblage. This is the sort of behaviour up with which I will not put. Fortunately the tomato is recoverable in a sense because … Continue reading
Siamese twin apple
Found in some of the apples that have been brought in for me to press this week.
A little more work on the polycrub
Progress has been painfully slow this year, but I’m really not comfortable using power tools when I can’t even get my fingers to do what my brain is telling them 🙁 I have however finally managed to finish off the … Continue reading
I am a mushroom daddy!
Ok, so it’s only the one (grey oyster) so far, but I could hardly have made my first attempt at growing my own mushrooms in a more difficult year. I’ve kept the logs in a lean-to where they wouldn’t get … Continue reading
Four courgettes and a pepper (or few)
More peppers picked yesterday (and perhaps the last of this year’s yellow courgettes). From top to bottom, left to right: yellow Corno di Toro, Hungarian Black chile, Chocolate sweet pepper, red Corno di Toro (with a couple of other red … Continue reading