Posted in Allotment, Dunblane project, knitting, tagged Dunblane project, knitting, photos on March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The photography project has been somewhat neglected for the past couple of weeks, so today when we went down to the allotment I grabbed a couple of shots en route.
Fairy Bridge, 23-3-09
The wee park next to the Fairy Bridge, 23-3-09
And Chris took this one of me watering our wedding sweet peas:
Knitting-wise, progress on the Print [...]
Posted in Allotment, knitting, tagged Allotment, knitting, stole, wedding on March 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is our allotment as of this afternoon. The green manure is all dug in, the beds are all dug over, and there are sheets of plastic and glass laid out on the beds we’re going to use first to warm the soil. It may not look like much, but there are tiny buds in [...]
Posted in Allotment, tagged Allotment, produce on August 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We spent most of the day in the allotment today. We got lucky with the rain – while it was forecast, it didn’t really start to come down heavily until after we were safely home. The earth was a bit heavy and sticky from all the rain of the last few days, but that didn’t [...]
As a large part of the allotment has been taken over by strawberries, we’ve been experiencing something of a glut recently. I made strawberry sorbet and stuck it in the freezer, and still had some left over (not to mention some raspberries that I bought just before we found out about the allotment). On Tuesday [...]
Posted in Allotment, tagged Allotment on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So today we spent most of the day at the new allotment, clearing weeds. Most of them were shallow-rooted annual weeds that came up very easily, leaving actual useful plants behind!
Raspberries! I saw them poking out between the willowherb and nettles, but wasn’t sure what they were because they didn’t have any fruit on them. [...]
Posted in Allotment, Baking, Uncategorized, tagged Allotment, Baking on July 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A while ago we signed up for an allotment. We knew the waiting list wasn’t too long, as the allotments in our town have only just got going again after falling into disuse back in the ’80s. Well, yesterday evening we got a phone call offering us a small half plot. Given the (slightly intimidating) [...]
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