COLD HANDS The bucket is full of roots. Of radish, celeriac, turnip, parsnip, swede, beetfruit*. All lifted within the last half-hour. Leaves twisted off ’cept the celeraic, which we save as flavoursome additions to soups and stews. Rubbed clean by hand in icy water, their array of colours revealed from beneath the dirt. All aromatic [...]
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26 November 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman COLD HANDS
Thursday, November 26th, 200930 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SUNDAY MORNING AT THE END OF AUGUST, THREE LADS ON BIKES IN MISTY SHASTON, SOUNDS OUTSIDE THE BACK PASSAGE
Sunday, August 30th, 200930 August 2009 SUNDAY MORNING AT THE END OF AUGUST (Yesterday afternoon and) This morning the plots were full of allotment folk bending backs, hoeing, cutting, shifting piles of this and that. As a feather-soft drift of misty rain came in westerly before lunchtime, with quiet focus so we worked. Much to do, not a [...]
Read More »31 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ LOG by Joe Hashman OBSERVING FLOWERS
Friday, July 31st, 200920 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman WHAT TO SOW IN JULY
Monday, July 20th, 200920 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 [...]
Read More »24 June 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman NEARLY 1PM ON A HOT DAY, AN HOUR HARVESTING, NO MEAT & SIX VEG
Wednesday, June 24th, 200924 June 2009 NEARLY 1PM ON A HOT DAY Coming back from town I met an old boy who lives not far away. “Aye, aye!” I hollered, “You alright then?” “Think so,” he replied, “Why? Don’t I look it?” We chatted at the entrance to our back passage in the full heat of the half-past [...]
Read More »23 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman A BARBEQUE SUMMER, FIRST THINNING OF SWEDES, BEE SWARM
Saturday, May 23rd, 200923 May 2009 A BARBEQUE SUMMER Jim over the yard reckons it’s going to be “a barbeque summer.” No chance of rain, he says, until maybe Monday. Jim loves turnips but I’ve none on the go yet. These members of the cabbage tribe thrive with plenty of moisture. But with water rationed both naturally in [...]
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