Starting an Allotment
A small blog about my allotment and other things
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Mid July - Up at the allotment
Success with Cucumbers
I have never tried to grow cucumbers, but these year I bought a couple of plants from the allotment plant sale and guess what we have had 8 cucumbers - just enough considering we are not salad people.
The allotment plant sale
Green Beans & Courgette bed
14th June - can you see my spuds???
No neither could I - so here is a before & after picture
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Nathan (aka - hubby)
Have just got back from 7 months travelling in North & Central America with the wife. For the past 4 years we have been living in Henley-on-Thames.
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Things that I failed to grow succesfully but will be trying again with this year
Tomatoes - 4th year lucky - can they be that hard? Success
Things I am growing for the 1st time this year (2009)
Chillies - oooo yes
Cucumbers - ooo yes
Asparagus Pea - Success but they tasted awful
Aubergines - No luck I am afraid
Raspberries - A small Crop
Gooseberries - A small Crop
Savoy Cabbages - oooo yes
Cauliflower No luck
New things I am going to cook this year
Sweet Chilli Sauce
Homemade Lemonade
Books I have Read
One Step Behind - Henning Mankell
Already Dead - Charlie Huston
The Fifth Woman - Henning Mankell
Peril at End House - Agatha Christie
Regeneration - Par Barker
Sidetracked - Henning Mankell
A Dangerous Man - Charlie Huston
Devil May Care - Sebastian Faulks
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
A Snowball in Hell - Christopher Brookmyre
The Big Four - Agatha Christie
A Prayer for Barney Thomson - Douglas Lindsay
Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christe
My Father and other working class football hereos - Gary imlach
Daddy's Little Girl - Mary Higgins Clark
Six Bad Things - Charlie Huston
The Mystery of the Blue Train - Agatha Christie
Past Mortem - Ben Elton
It's Goodnight from me and Goodnight from Him - Ronnie Corbett
The Man Who Smiled - Henning Mankell
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