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It's a Bank Holiday here in Ireland giving everyone a day off after Saint Patrick's Day. The weather forecast was not good but we s...
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The new BBC series of Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is back on Sunday nights. Oh how I wish I had a pal like those two. They are...
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You will see lots of Phormiums growing in West Cork. They originate in New Zealand and are also called Flax. They use to be used by Mao...
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We had 16 more baby rabbits arrivals a few weeks ago. Well at least 6 because they have left their parents now and moved into their new ...
I dib mine in like you only mine aren't as big as yours yet. I think they'll have to go in soon though. I'm reading a book on the history of gardening at the moment and its interesting where our veg came from.
ReplyDeleteI also find the origins of our everyday vegetables and food very interesting, Kev. There aren't many vegetables (Asparagus, Nettles...?) that originate from Britain. The Tudors ate everything fresh and would only eat vegetables and fruit in season. Even Mulligatawny soup and Piccalilli came from India and the game Snooker was invented during the Monsoon season. All fascinating stuff and shows that even our every day vegetables that we take for granted. May have originated thousands of miles away.
ReplyDeleteWe do leeks the same way, only I made my holes too deep last year and although the length of the white part of the leek was quite long, I could not get them out of the ground because they were in too deep!
ReplyDeleteHi Vera. I often move my leeks about and heel them in where another crops just finished. I have read that show leek exhibitors make the dibber/ metal tube widen the hole and fill them with compost to give the leek a bigger white sock. The Alliums are great for keeping away colds in winter time. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteNot a plant I've had any success with, there used to be a society of leek growers all trying to grow the biggest one, usually on allotments. Some huge specimens in a good year, the competition was fierce and lots of time, effort, love and attention was spent trying to grow the winner. I don't know if the competition still goes on, a lot of allotments locally have been swallowed up by development.
ReplyDeleteHi Cumbrian. I have seen some of the giant leeks at Shrewsbury and Southport flower shows. There are many ways of growing giant vegetables. I use to know some one who use to feed his giant vegetables sugar.
ReplyDeleteAllotments are prime development land, sadly. In Denmark they have allotment sheds that they live in the summer and the allotments are preserved for ever for future generations.
Allotments have a lot of camaraderie (mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together) and there is always somebody who can 'talk' a good allotment and tell you how to do it right. Then you look at their allotment and its overgrown. Seriously. Smallholding is much too isolated and even though you can do what you want on your allotment. You miss humans to have a laugh and a joke and put the world to rights.
You have to got to have an interest or else you would go mad. Even seen carrots and parsnips growing in drain pipes in a sand/ compost mix. Thanks for your comment!