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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Weee, my first seeds of the year have sprouted! The seeds have been in the soil for a fortnight now and I was beginning to think the pea shoots were not going to sprout; but here they are. The soil was a bit damp when I sowed them so some of the seeds got mouldy and in the end only about half of them have sprouted. The radish sprouted after one [...]
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Given the great weather in June there was still surprisingly little to eat in the garden. One thing we had was a few last strawberries before the plants got a bit excited about throwing out runners at any crack of land within a few metres reach. Other plants were mostly beginning to set fruit. The pea, tomatoes, French beans and courgette had all moved past flowers onto early [...]
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Wow, it is hard to imagine but we have had no internet for months… We finally moved into London to our new Urban flat. Putting the ‘urban’ back into urbanfeedstuff! Things have been busy in the garden too and harvest season is currently underway. Rather than try to backtrack and do a million posts I am going to offer up a couple of monthly summarys. I think that this will [...]
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I haven’t posted for a little while because I have been busy. I also haven’t posted for a little while because all is not well in the garden and I can’t bring myself to photo the state of the plants. The weather has been cold and overcast for almost two weeks as far as I can remember. There is no sunshine to ripen the strawberries which are all half grown [...]
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I feel a bit guilty for complaining about the basil almost two weeks ago. I suppose I wasn’t complaining really. I was worried. I was sure it was never going to grow and I didn’t understand why not. Well, it has grown! It appears that it was a simple matter of wanting more heat and water! The first pot is a bit of a cheat actually. This one is the [...]
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