While it was raining today i picked some carrots and a few peas and a beetroot. They were quickly picked, chopped up and placed in the freezer quickly (they wont be in there long ). The beetroot is weighting to be boil and then pickled in the the kilnar jar with the rest of them.
Have been harvesting the lollo rosa that has been sitting on the window sill (might sow some more to cut and come again).
Also harvested some of the mix green salad leaves set that has been sown outside
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Is it possible to be too hot in Scotland ?
Yes it can be, It’s only July 1st and am waking around the house /garden /town in cut off shorts and short sleeved T-shirts am finding it super hot due to only 12 week to do until my due date !!!!!
This afternoon about 3.00 it cool right down to popped in to the garden and planted a couple of plants that where in dire need to go in the ground. Just after that, we had a sprinkling of rains and now it has got even hotter that it was before.
I am currently sitting in the living room watching the Tennis with the ceiling fan on and not getting much cool air from it at all.
My parents are visiting this week to and also finding the weather to much for them. We don’t have much planned for this week as they are really using our house as a get away from their newly expanded business for a wee holiday.
We where planning to have a BBQ today but as it was raining i made it in doors
Burgers/sausages/BBQ flavour chicken wings/salad and chips yum yum
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Went for a walk along the ‘old road’ and picked a big bag of Elderflower and started a batch of elderflower cordial, It’ll be ready (hopefully ) tomorrow I’ll just have to wait and see what happens
http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/516164
Prep time:
- 20 mins, plus overnight infusing
- Cook time:
- 5 mins
- Serves:
- Makes 1.5 litres
Sophie Grigson captures the essence of warm English summers with this refreshing and versatile elderflower cordial
Tips and suggestions
- Cooks Tips…
- To serve Elderflower Cordial: Dilute the elderflower cordial to taste with fizzy water, and serve over ice with a slice or two of lemon, or a sprig of mint floating on top.
For something a touch more sprightly, add a shot of gin or vodka and a lemon slice, or add it to white wine and sparkling water to make an elderflower spritzer.
Elderflower cordial is also brilliant in recipes such as gooseberry fool, and in vinaigrette – mix with wine vinegar, a touch of mustard, salt, pepper and a light olive oil (surprisingly good with a courgette, lettuce and broad bean salad). You might even try adding it to a marinade for chicken breasts. Try it in sorbets, or ice-creams, or just spooned over scoops of vanilla ice-cream, or use it to sweeten and flavour the fruit for a crumble.
Ingredients
- 20 heads of elderflower
- 1.8kg granulated sugar, or caster sugar
- 1.2 litres water
- 2 unwaxed Lemons
- 75g citric acid
Method
1. Shake the elderflowers to expel any lingering insects, and then place in a large bowl.
2. Put the sugar into a pan with the water and bring up to the boil, stirring until the sugar has completely dissolved.
3. While the sugar syrup is heating, pare the zest of the lemons off in wide strips and toss into the bowl with the elderflowers. Slice the lemons, discard the ends, and add the slices to the bowl. Pour over the boiling syrup, and then stir in the citric acid. Cover with a cloth and then leave at room temperature for 24 hours.
4. Next day, strain the cordial through a sieve lined with muslin (or a new j-cloth rinsed out in boiling water), and pour into thoroughly cleaned glass or plastic bottles. Screw on the lids and pop into the cupboard ready to use.
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Hiya all,
Jobs i have done today included harvesting a couple of board bean pods, a few Carrots, raddishes, and some snap peas.
I have cleaned up and prepared the veg. I have chopped up the carrots and put them and the pea’s in to the freezer.
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Recently finished one half of a loom knitted Wrist Warmers
Almost finished the second one of the gloves, just taking it off the loom.
have finished them both now
Quite easy to wear for gardening jobs too.
A little loose for me but might alter the project if i do it again, with either a double strand or make it ribbed instead of plan knitting
the lovely wool came from http://freyalyn.blogspot.com/ at Wonderwool 2009
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This has totally been a pain in the bum, I totally lost the plot with this but i have finally finished it today
I was counting down the rows
On Ravelry here http://www.ravelry.com/projects/fluffywelshsheep/baby-love-diagonal-baby-blanket
http://fluffywelshsheep.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/baby-blanket/
yippy
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Adding some wool to my blog to help reduce the amount i have in the spare room.
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I have harvested some of the pea pods today as residence was futile lol
I planted the peas on the 21st March
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I have notices about 3 seedling of runner beans popping up today from the planting on the 24th May
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Planted out the seed potatoes i got from freecycle (I mentioned it yesterday) I need to plant out the cabbages and courgette i got too.
Also needing to plant out is the sweetcorn and squash seedlings.
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Today i collected a bag of seed potatoes and a pot of cabbages or Brussel sprouts lables mix up( I am not sure they look a bit legy for cabbages but have been grown very closes together so i am unsure ) I also have a pot with a courgette plant in it.
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Hubbies grass seeds have started to show, he was getting a bit worried that the grass seeds had got to old , we where watering it everyday but go fed up with it so left it and the weather was really hot then really wet and i think this must have encouraged the seeds to grow.
Was at the Central fife and west show yesterday and got some Brussels Sprouts and a couple of plants of cabbage, Also got a plant/flower which at the moment I am not sure what it is
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Planting out French beans and Dwarf French Beans.
Hubby has set up the border along the fence line. We have also placed down plastic /weeding sheet down to help keep the front garden tidy.
Also weeded the front potato patch from last year which I didn’t get time to dig up the potatoes have started the sprout up for the 2nd year so I’ll have to get hubby to dig them when the time right, Spent some times looking around for some cheap bark but no luck.
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Planted out 4 squash seeds and put them in a cut plastic bottle with a plastic bag over the top, placed them on heated propagator until they have germinated then moved to plastic greenhouse.
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Trip to Dobbies Stirling, bourght Veg plant today.
These are French Beans Slenderette
Dwarf Frech Beans Masterpieces
Sweetcorn Sundance
Flowers
Petunia Burgundy x5
French Marigold double mixed
Nasturtium x5
Lavender Regal Splendour
Clematis
Osteospermum x 5 (Sheila, Amanda, Biancia,Tambero, Serena
all so bourgh some firbe pot for growing beans in from seeds.
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I planted in the raised bed, a row of Welsh spring Onion (spring, white Lisbon, Ishikura), these where planted in 1 row in raised bed Veg garden.
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Seeds Sown in cell pots today, Swede Virtue, Roughly 3 to 4 seeds per cell.
Sown another row of Parsnips (Old packet says par wge 411 5sE on it.
Sown in a tub al together Parsnip Lisbonnais A, unknown packet just called Parsnips, a swapped packet of parsnips and also an old packet of a thing called Hamburg Parsley Berliner (grown and harvest the same as parsnip).
Sown in a tub Carrots Chanteray Red cored 2 and Carrots Early Nantes 5.
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Planted in the raised bed 2 rows of Runner Beans , and 2 rows of Dwarf Beans. A row of parsnips but not expecting these to do much as it is an Old packet of seeds.
There is a row available for carrots and a row available for parsnips if i have any seeds in the seed box.
I also planted some asparagus peas.
Seed packet information
Dwarf French Bean speedy
Dwarf French Bean Barlotto Di Fuoco
Parsnip Halflong white Gem
Asparagus Pea APE01
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Bought some veg plants from tesco’s
2 big Tom Gardener delight , so climbing sweetpeas, El Greco courgette plant, 6 smaller tomatoe plants which are gardener delight and money maker.
They are currently sitting in the plastic greenhouse
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Planted out some Cabbage plants , Cauliflower plants, iceberg lettuce, bussel sprout and leek plants .
Limed the soil for the brasicas, also put in some ferterliser pleets down and so Organic slug pellets.
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Today planted up two packets of lettuce lollo rossa. Contructed a plastic greenhouse put it out an dpalced one of the trays of lettuce on it unfortuanly the wind didn’t like the new plastic greenhouse and seed tray and toppled it over. Soo I picked it up and put it back together and placed the two trays back in it and weighted it down. Also attached two bungy to hold it on to the other solid greenhouse also planted up 2 packets (about 11 seeds )of Squash seeds also placed in greenhouse.
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Bought two 6 meter soaker hose’s from poundland . Have set one around the raised bed that has the veg in it at the moment. Set a timer on for the hose and ran it for 15mins. Once i set up veg in the other bed. I set the other hose on that one. Where possible I am gona try watering the raised bed ever night for 15 min, some time in the evening around 5.00pm in the evening
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Today in between the heavy rain showers. I managed to plant up a row of carrots early Nantes and two rows of beetroots Boltary also planted out in a pot 3 Ptilotus Joey (3 plants) , These plants where a free plant over that came with goji berries and the Tomatoes irrigation system, I have no idea what these plant looks like. Also drilled some holes in to a bucket that had been forgotten and has started to fill up with water which isn’t a good idea as I have planted with tubers.
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Back from the hols to come back to a total jungle the grass in the garden is about 2 foot tall!
Many of the sown seeds have started to germinate and sow there little leaves, the potatoes in the tubs and pots and sack are show their greenleaves and are needing to be filled in again (waitting for a nice day where tam can help me as the soil is getting to heavy for me to life at the moment).
Also put the plants and seedling that where in the kitchen, outside waiting to be planted up.
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Planted 2 tubs of potatoes majestic about 10 tubers in all (Big pots) (120 days to mature) also planted in tubs 4 plants (2 tubs) of Jerusalem Artichokes. (cut down stem to about 30cm once leaves turn brown in Autumn lift as required in October to early spring).
Also planted today a horseraddish (Harvest roots in October / Nov when the leaves have dried and turned yellow, Don’t forget to replant so the roots for the next season), Store in a cool, dry and airy place. Last of the tubers and things to be planted up, Set up and put outside the tomatoes irrigation system with the water in the tub and some feed and also two tomatoes in the pots (one plant a pot).
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Noticed more carrots poking up out of the soil . Took the carrots seed from the container in the greenhouse and placed them on one of the raised bed. I made a row next to the last row out of carrots and out them in the ground (not expecting much to happen with these fellas).
Also had a little weed in the corner (ground elder) where the fruit trees/ bushes are and the comfrey is. It look a lot better now. Must plant the rest of the tree and bushes up soon as am sure they are fed up being in the pot.
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Had a we look at the veg seeds and noticed a few carrots seedlings are poking up throught the soil, didn’t notice anything else showing.
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Bought 4 Jerusalem Artichokes tuber and I horseradish stork. Currently waitting to go out to the garden (they are sitting in a saucer with a little water to stop them from drying out). Also collected more tubs and soils for the potatoes and now the artichokes and horseraddish to uses.
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Planted up a couple tubs of Desiree potatoes more will be planted soon these should be ready in 150 days which is late August. More potatoes to be planted soon.
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- I havn’t been doing much in ways of gardening but Tam has created the 4 beds in to 2 beds and removed bed which is nolonger in uses. Seeds in the greenhouse are Peas, beans, shallots , Tomatoes.I planted (soaked before hand) a mix of sweetpeas, I tried to plant courgette but I havn’t noticed any sproutting yet. Brussel Sprouts , Only notice on that has popped up yet. A couple of batches of cress, planted in youghurt pots on a medium of cotton wool pads(not put back on the window sill).Along with the cress i have parsley, mint and thyme. I have planted up some carrots in a pot for two things realy that to see what batches of carrots are still viable for the outdoor plantting, And also some small salad carrots. On the Salad note i tried to some mix salad leafs but they didn’t take to good. I might need to plant some more of the variety i mentioned before as they didn’t progress to good.
Last year i mentioned about Comfrey plants can be seen here http://fluffywelshsheep.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/plants-are-you-ready/ not sure if they have survived over winter as they havn’t appear yet but still might be a bit too cold for them still.
Well i was stripping the leaves from them to make a comfrey soup for the plants which i put in to a small sealable pot, which i have now put them on the fruit bushes around the plot.
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Nothing done on the garden front . Have been thinking on planting out the broadbeans , got two youghurt pots for the mustard seeds.
Waitting for my tomatoes irrigation system to arrive to I can plant out the toms soon. Also thinking the big tatties bin to help against carrot fly etc. Might try this with parsnips too. Need to find some for the greenhouse. Also bought yesterday 3 grow bags for the outdoor tomatoes to be placed in!
I have note that the sweatpeas have started to show willing. I bought a waterbut for the garden.
Note the Arran Pilot will be ready in 90 days . 3 month, so june they should be ready.
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Nothing done today, but Tam has created the 4 beds into 2 and removed one of the beds which is no longer used.
Seeds in greenhouse are Peas, beans, shallots. Tomatoes . I planted (soaked before hands) a mix of sweat peas, Courgette but I haven’t notice If they have sprouted et. Brussels sprouts I belive only one has germinates and sprouted up. Put a couple of batches of cress into youghurt pots and they where in the greenhouse but not back on the window sill in the kitchen as well as a parsley plant in a yoghurt pot . I tried planting some carrots in pot for small salad crop. mixed salad leaf not so good. Cauliflower, leeks, Turnips. Might need to sown some more of the varieties I mentioned before as so are not doing to go.
Last year I collected the leaves from the comfrey plant. I placed them in a bucket of water with a sealed lid and i have openned it up sincer it was closed all winter and watered all the fruit bushes with it.
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spent 30 min tiding up the patio of the backgarden putting things in to the appropriate bins/places
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I started some seed for the growing season,
I have been looking at them now for over a month most of them as Germinated but two lots haven’t, that being the carrots and some of the lettuce (the other lots of lettuce is doing great gun).
So today i have re sown a different variaty of carrots and another variaty of Lettuce
The being carrot F1 Parano (if these germinate i’ll put a patch outside aswell) and a variaty of lettuce called iceberg
For the ones that have grow is way to early to get them in the ground ,but they are all currently happy sitting on the table in the kitchen searching out the light and occasionally getting a stray of water.
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other post of interests
http://fluffywelshsheep.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/transplantting-broad-bands/
http://fluffywelshsheep.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/has-beans/
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as the weather hasn’t be great to go out in the garden (OK but way to cold) to do any gardening. So have been decuttering the house from stuff that has been sitting around and not touch for a long time.
a pile of book, an old fish tank that was a bit broken, a free standing pedastool fan plus a load of other random stuff, I have put them all on to freecycle and the pile is slowly decreasing. The stuff that doesn’t go will be taken to the tip within a week . I think i mightstartting calling it Mt freecycle.
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Sat in the living room cos it’s cold outside with a mat on the floor and am transplanting plants fro container in to bigger containers untill i can get out side and clean the green house.
I have sorted some of the veg seeds am going plant them up for the next lot of seeds transplanting .
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Pop art picture of me
the head band that has gone wrong
my plaster of paris hand
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Wii Fit day:181th day (Wednesday 21st January)
Last week: (weight): 14.11lb
This week: (weight):14st.10lb
Pounds lost (or gained):-1lb yippy back on track
How many pounds left to lose: 37lb
Waist measurement before n/a (cm)
Waist measurement now n/a (cm)
My Weight Chart:
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