You can call me impatient, I don’t care. But given that this year we’ve had such a rubbish summer and growing season, I couldn’t wait to get ordering for next year. OK, so I know it’s a bit premature but you can’t really blame me now, can you?
The vegetable seed stands are usually cast aside [...]
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A beautiful dragonfly (or damselfly?) has been hanging around the Smallest Smallholding lately. Just managed to snap this pic before it sped off again.
Thanks all for the encouragement. I did send in my CV, but unfortunately I don’t think it’ll go any further. Spoke to the agency today and they said that a fair amount [...]
Continue reading about It’s Not Quite 9-5 For Me Yet (Plus Veg Updates)
Rich decided to make a cheese and tomato sandwich using my homegrown toms. He was a bit disappointed last year - they’d grown fast and the plants were leggy and the result seemed to be fairly watery, tasteless tomatoes. We don’t know if the lack of flavour was down to our tomato variety Cristal F1, [...]
About three or four years ago I decided that I didn’t want the fig in a large pot where it was. So in a moment of madness, I dug a big hole and dragged, heaved and eventually dropped the fig - pot and all - into the hole and earthed it all back in. But [...]
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