This has been a good week in the garden in general.
I'll try to show it more in pictures than words, if I can manage that; you know I love a ramble!
On Monday I took up the vast majority of the onions and they are now drying on a hessian bag in the cellar store room. don't know the weight until they are dried and then I can compare with last year. I thought I'd planted more this time but not sure....
I kept a few in the kitchen to use and I just love them sitting there, knowing I grew them!
I did a bit of sowing, too. More carrots alongside the ones that are doing very well, some Basil in the top of the herb loo and extra radishes in a spare planter after I ditched one of my tomato plants.
These are the first sweet peas I have had in the kitchen for the last few days until today as I have just had to throw them away.
On Tuesday I had a good little harvest and it was pure joy to bring this basket of goodies into the house!
Now, I have a Twitter account for the Airbnb room and I follow a few interesting people - can't do with trash, tat or gossip; I'm a very discerning member of this form of social media! Following on from this, see what I did there? I had a chat with a company called Dri-Pak who I think a lot of people have heard of. I've wanted to do some product testing for companies for a while so I asked if they were interested in sending me some items that I could review - and this little lot arrived this week!
I plan on sitting down this weekend to plan how best to do this little project; I've used soda crystals for quite a long time, along with good old fashioned green household soap.
Ok, there we are. I am hoping we may get a shower or two today; the butts are just about empty and I could do with all the main veg patches getting a bit of a soaking.
As ever, I look forward to hearing what everybody gets up to over the weekend.
Bye for now.
Lou.xx
Really interested to see what you do with the dri-pak items. Very lucky.
ReplyDeleteYour harvests are coming in thick and fast now - really pleased for you.
I've never ever thought of using turnip in stir fry! Great idea - we have loads lol.
I too love to see some of our harvests in the kitchen just waiting to be used :D x
Turnips are lovely when really thinly sliced and fried with garlic.
Deleteharvests are looking good, well done, great news on getting the chance to do a review
ReplyDeleteThanks Dawn, but I am a little concerned about my tomatoes. I am trying to catch up with watering them as I think I have underdone them, some have light green leaves. A good amount of flowers but some of them look a little jaded, as if they are going to amount to nothing a drop off.
DeleteNo rain at all here but it isn't affecting the harvests, everything is coming on leaps and bounds. I must give turnips a try. Your basket of garden vegetables looks lovely, I know what you mean about feeling so great having grown it.
ReplyDeleteHi Tania. Do try the turnips. I find them very easy to grow, and soooo useful.
Deletegorgeous goodies from the garden.
ReplyDeleteI like Dri pak products, it's good stuff and reasonably priced.
hope you are having a good weekend.
Thanks Sadie. Busy weekend as usual but interspersed with the tennis. Thankfully I should be able to see some of Murray's match this afternoon before parents' evening starts; can't wait for that as the boys came home with excellent reports and test results. Proud mum that's me!
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