Ok this is a bit tongue in cheek but this really happened last weekend. We get our groceries delivered every two weeks, usually on a Saturday afternoon or evening. Needless to say, by the second week fresh supplies are running low. Well this time we were staring at what looked like an empty kitchen with growling tummies. Out of desperation I started to collect anything edible I could find; the [...]
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We ate our first crop of salad leaves today. Yummy! I also made a nice Yunnan ham and broccoli quiche to go with them as a few leaves was not going to fill us up! Emma
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The veg seem to have slowed down quite a lot. I have been watching them for the past week or more and it seems like nothing is happening. I wasn’t sure why. But yesterday Adam inspected them and decided that I have been starving them by not watering them enough in a fear of the mould returning. He made me give them a good soaking of water once the sun [...]
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(pics from top carrot, tomato, radish, salad leaves) It’s been 11 days now since I sowed the carrots, tomatoes, basil, strawberries and radish. Mostly its good news. The carrots are sprouting away like nobody’s business. I guess I am going to have to thin them out soon. I am interested to see that one seed does not equal one sprout. I think anyway. I sowed them fairly carefully, spaced as [...]
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Despite mixed results so far with the veg we are confident we can figure it out so we have decided to ‘plough on’ with our experiments for now. Today we bought some more containers, a couple of hanging baskets and a sack of compost. For now I have just filled a third trough, the same as the one the carrots are in, and sowed some mixed leaves in it. It [...]
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