Posts Tagged ‘cabbage’

7 September 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman FILDERKRAUT CABBAGE

Monday, September 7th, 2009

7 September 2009 FILDERKRAUT CABBAGE Most years I mainly grow cabbages to harvest in June/July: the Hispi F1 and Greyhound varieties. Seeds get sown successionally late winter/early spring (some mid-January this time around) and tight, flame shaped hearts are on the menu before cabbage white butterflies are on the wing. These insects are infuriating and [...]

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4 September 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SOYA BEAN NEWS, STUFFED MARROW

Friday, September 4th, 2009

4 September 2009 SOYA BEAN NEWS When I planted soya bean seeds as directed on the packet back on 7 April it commenced trials of an unusual crop I’d not grown before. What stuck in my mind then, and is happening now, was the information that beans should be left on the plant and will [...]

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25 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman AUTUMN COMETH

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

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23 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman PEAS, A BIT OF SCIENCE

Monday, August 24th, 2009

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21 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SOYA BEAN DEVELOPMENTS, LOVELY FARM SMELLS

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

21 July 2009 SOYA BEAN DEVELOPMENTS I’ve never taken an umbrella out into the garden with my wake up cup of tea before, but I did this morning. More rain! There have been complaints about the recent weather from various quarters, including gardener friends, but not from I. Sure, I am harbouring concerns about a [...]

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20 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman WHAT TO SOW IN JULY

Monday, July 20th, 2009

20 July 2009 WHAT TO SOW IN JULY The thing with growing your own food is that by mid-July it can feel like the sowing season is over and that, if you haven’t got crops in the ground by now, then you’ve missed the boat. The good news is that aint necessarily so! There is [...]

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17 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SUNFLOWER IN BUD

Friday, July 17th, 2009

17 July 2009 SUNFLOWER IN BUD My sunflowers are full of promise this year. I have eight in the garden, of the Giant Single variety, which I’ve nurtured from seeds sown on 29 March. The tallest of these is 276cm. This is something of a surprise as it’s closest of all to an incinerator and [...]

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12 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SIMPLE PLEASURE, SPUD LATEST, “JUST GOING DOWN THE BOTTOM”, P&D UPDATE

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

12 July 2009 SIMPLE PLEASURE Just had lunch. The radio is on, just pipped 2pm. Cup of tea is a promise after dishes have been done. We had a delicious, filling meal, Mrs Nails and I. “Call it Easy Onions, Cabbage and Potater with Salt & Pepper,” I say. My wife reaches out to take [...]

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9 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman REALITY PAR

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

9 July 2009 REALITY PAR The thing about pests, diseases and disorders is that they are all great levellers. The King of Christendom could have blighted potatoes but the materially worst off of his subjects perfect spuds. Then who would be the poorer? And so it seems that crop failures keep us all on some [...]

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27June 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman WASPS IN THE BIRD BOX, WASPS IN ST JAMES

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

27 June 2009 WASPS IN THE BIRD BOX One of the bird boxes in my mum and dad’s garden, in the Vale of White Horse five miles south of Oxford, is home to a nest of wasps. I noticed it this afternoon on a visit while looking round the borders and beds. It’s on the [...]

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