CABBAGES (THREE DIFFERENT ONES) This week Dirty Nails has been both sowing, tending and eating cabbages. This green-leaved doyen of the veg patch comes in many different varieties that can be sown and harvested practically year-round. On the plot, he has just put down a line of January King 3. This handsome customer is a [...]
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DIRTY NAILS BLOG by Joe Hashman CABBAGES (THREE DIFFERENT ONES), SEEING THE LIGHT
Monday, June 21st, 20103 February 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman WALKING TO WORK
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010WALKING TO WORK I thought today I should walk to work instead of drive. Twenty-four hours of drizzle and rain had subsided, the afternoon was as yet young, and all I’d seen so far this morning was the bottom of a porridge bowl, two cups of tea, words and information on a computer screen. It’s cold [...]
Read More »22 January 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman BEDFORDSHIRE CHAMPION
Friday, January 22nd, 2010BEDFORDSHIRE CHAMPION A filthy morning weather-wise. Heavy rain and wet wet wet. I was at the computer for most of it. However, managed to get into the greenhouse just before lunchtime to try something a bit new and different – sowing onions from seed. Fellow gardeners I’ve talked to reckon that done this way makes [...]
Read More »8 December 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman LOOKS LIKE A BUILDING SITE
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009LOOKS LIKE A BUILDING SITE Shaftesbury has grown since I last parked up opposite the eastern development adjacent to the A30 and had a proper look. Red brick houses have sprung up like mushrooms within their scaffold-pole shells. Some of the new homes that were “coming soon” are already here. I met an old mate [...]
Read More »6 December 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman FORGETTING TO BE CAREFUL
Sunday, December 6th, 2009FORGETTING TO BE CAREFUL Another night of constant rain. Fields are sodden, roadside drains and ditches overflowing with dirty water-splash. But this morning t’aint so cold as was. The air smells clean as a whistle and sky is clear as a bell. We have our morning stroll round the garden. I’m on my second cup, [...]
Read More »2 December 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman WET WEATHER WEAR
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009WET WEATHER WEAR The weather still produces rain every day, often really heavy. Though the ground is saturated in places a gardener still has to work. Clearing a bed of spent summer raspberries is ongoing. I don’t mind being out in foul conditions. The trick is having suitable wet-weather gear. Aside from wellies, which are comfy like [...]
Read More »21 November 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman ‘TIS RAININ’
Saturday, November 21st, 2009‘TIS RAININ’ There’s a dirty farm yard in the Vale of Marshwood. They’ve a Collie dog in a box by the gate. Though ’tis rainin’, when you pass he barks from his cage and nigh-on strangles hisself through growlin’ and warnin’. From the concrete yard mud flows, suspended in the running water out onto the [...]
Read More »1 November 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman DRIVING TO SWINDON
Sunday, November 1st, 2009After the second successive night of blustery gales, first thing this morning I took the high roads from North Dorset cross-country to windy Swindon. In conditions made treacherous fallen leaves and sheets of driving rain, the route was mercifully light on traffic. Rain entered through even a tiny crack in the wound-down window to assault [...]
Read More »26 October 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman NOT QUITE HOT ENOUGH
Monday, October 26th, 2009It was incredibly warm today in Shaftesbury. Tee-shirt weather at the end of October. I had to open extra vents in the greenhouse. Gave a drink of water to revive wilting salads in pots. Also took the hoe to a smattering of weeds that peppered bare soil between Brussels sprouts and recently planted winter onions [...]
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