Spare time has been in short supply. Any couple of hours free on a Sunday afternoon has been spent in the garden. With the dry mild weather and the wish to be outdoors, the Trevor’s Kitchen Garden.ie site has been neglected. You could say I was saving the blog update work for a rainy day. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘autumn’
15 Sep
TALKING ABOUT GROWING MORE TIME CONSUMING THAN GROWING – THIRD WEEK IN SEPTEMBER 2009
The garden is beginning to look neglected but is nonetheless very productive with apples, courgettes, tomatoes, parsley, runner beans, cavello nero kale, perpetual spinach and carrots looking and tasting well. I’m lucky to get time just to keep the grass cut, under glass plants and potted plants watered. Most garden work these days is done late at night [...]
9 Sep
ORDERING SEEDS FOR AUTUMN PLANTING – SECOND WEEK IN SEPTEMBER 2009
The ‘Indian summer’ has arrived and high pressure from mid-week on is good news for harvesting and sowing. I open up the seed catalogues therefore and order seeds for autumn sowing such as: 1. Radar – autumn onion sets, 2. autumn shallots, 3. garlic, 4. Aquadulce – broad beans, 5. cress, 6. mustard. Seeing these sets and seeds [...]
31 Aug
BOTTLING BEETROOT AND FREEZING COURGETTE SOUP – FIRST WEEK IN SEPTEMBER 2009
Last chance before political work takes over to store up the beetroot and courgette crop. I need the ground where the beetroot has been growing to plant autumn onion sets. It suits me therefore to harvest the lot, boil and bottle them in vinegar with some onion and herbs from the garden in each jar. [...]
17 Aug
CUTTING BACK ON RASPBERRY CANES AND BLACKBERRY BUSHES – THIRD WEEK IN AUGUST 2009
This is now the week to look towards the jobs that come around each autumn. Cutting back of raspberry canes and blackcurrant bushes marks the beginning of autumn. I’m glad to report another good year for the blackcurrant bushes. The raspberry canes were new so I did not expect a bumper crop but hope for [...]
10 Aug
AFTER THE HARVEST, MULCHING – SECOND WEEK IN AUGUST 2009
Mulching space where crops have been harvested and cleared. Sowing green manure. As I remove plants following a harvest, for example, of broad beans and peas, I am left with very good bare soil. Nature does not do bare soil, so it is good to cover it with a mulch of grass clippings or even [...]
3 Aug
TIME TO TAKE CUTTINGS – FIRST WEEK IN AUGUST 2009
This is a good week for taking cuttings of any herbs in your own garden or the garden of someone else, provided they don’t mind having cuttings taken! Ask first! Taking cuttings is a very economical way of increasing your plant stock. Rosemary or sage, or indeed ivy in my case, are easily propogated from [...]
