Category Archives: cultivation

Today’s salad

Posted on 8 April, 2022 by eljubilado

We have a small garden and grow fruit a few vegetables and a variety of salad crops.  Most days we can pick a salad (sparsely in December and January) and this is always a combination of cultivated and volunteer crops, … Continue reading →

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Biodiversity day – a diverse salad

Posted on 23 May, 2016 by eljubilado

Salad from the garden on biodiversity day, 22 May, 2016 We ate this green salad – we have one of these most days in the growing season.  The ingredients vary. Some are cultivated, some are edible weeds (you do need … Continue reading →

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Making comfrey liquid feed without the smell.

Posted on 9 March, 2015 by eljubilado

I grow tomatoes every summer. I have always used organic methods which involve a high potassium feed made from Comfrey leaves. Well in fact I’ve found that Blue Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens sometimes called Green Alkanet or Bugloss), which grows prolifically … Continue reading →

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Winter

Posted on 15 November, 2013 by eljubilado

A bit of frost last night (12/13 November) – it’s cut back the achocha that scrambles over the hedge.  I picked the last of the fruits – here they are. So we’ve been using them from the end of August … Continue reading →

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