Posts Tagged ‘kohl rabi’

26 June 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman KOHL RABI, SWEET PEAS

Friday, June 26th, 2009

26 June 2009 KOHL RABI Friday is harvest day at Orchard Park. There’s never a massive amount of produce because the demo areas are only small, but enough useful bits and bobs come through to make cropping them worthwhile. This week it was time to call it time to call time on Anita’s kohl rabi [...]

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11 June 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman CABBAGES & CAULIFLOWERS, THE TROUBLE WITH HUMANS

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

11 June 2009 CABBAGES & CAULIFLOWERS Great excitement at Orchard Park today: the first round of harvesting occurred. The demo garden donated four of the best Hispi F1 cabbages I’ve grown – ever! – plus two beautiful and blemish free Andes cauliflowers as big as my splayed hand. Shona in the kitchen was very pleased [...]

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14 March 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SLUGS& SNAILS: HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

14 March 2009 SLUGS & SNAILS: HERE WE GO AGAIN! I eventually roused myself at twenty to eleven. After all those early mornings it was right to lie-in for a change. First job, after tea (in bed: thank you Mrs Nails) and coffee was up the greenhouse to open door, let some fresh air in [...]

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