After last year huge success, we have again three types of cooked foie gras on offer for this xmas, make sure to put your order in early, they were all sold the week before xmas eve.
Autumn planting
It is time now to plant overwintering garlic, we had a really good crop of thermidrome and early purple wight last year, so this year we are trying something different, Marco and Cristo, planted yesterday under nettings as they are quite a lot of birds around still, add a good fertilizer before planting and water…
Late July 15
one of the coldest July recorded and it shows on anything growing outside. mixed basils seeds in small pots, Morel de Balbis and Coqueret du Perou planted in raised beds and large pots, sow Aztec broccoli seeds. Decided against grow bag this year for some of the tomatoes, got loads of large builders soft plastic…
late June 15
Hail stones on first of June, weather still pretty cold for season. Massive wind on Bloom’s bank holiday Monday, some of the artichokes were levelled with no hope to put them back up unfortunately. last of scarlet chard and broccoli picked, planted rest of tomatoes and Genoa courgettes in tunnels, last of the first run…
Late May 15
Most tomatoes are in the ground indoor now, ramiro peppers, pumpkins, courgettes and blue kohlrabis seeds are in pots, first white and red alpine strawberries picked, golden mangetout and peas “douce Provence” seeds in ground, planted romanesco, parsnips and different beetroot outside but weather still pretty cold. First attack of red spider mites on strawberries,…