Comments on: THE GLUT KITCHEN GARDEN http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/2009/10/26/the-glut-kitchen-garden/ life, living and laundry Fri, 18 May 2012 01:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Catalina http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/2009/10/26/the-glut-kitchen-garden/#comment-6238 Catalina Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:14:15 +0000 http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/?p=360#comment-6238 Congrats on the allotment! Can't wait to see what you make for the CanJam! Congrats on the allotment!
Can’t wait to see what you make for the CanJam!

]]> By: Lizzie Powell http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/2009/10/26/the-glut-kitchen-garden/#comment-6225 Lizzie Powell Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:31:46 +0000 http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/?p=360#comment-6225 Hello Gloria, It was lovely to speak with you during the Christmas market weekends at Taurus(I'm the lady with the lavender rabbits and peg dolls). As always your shop looked wonderfully inviting. I've started my own blog and I would like to add yours to my list of blogs that I read (that's if I can fathom out how to do it!) I hope you don't mind? Lizzie x Hello Gloria, It was lovely to speak with you during the Christmas market weekends at Taurus(I’m the lady with the lavender rabbits and peg dolls). As always your shop looked wonderfully inviting. I’ve started my own blog and I would like to add yours to my list of blogs that I read (that’s if I can fathom out how to do it!) I hope you don’t mind?
Lizzie x

]]> By: maureen http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/2009/10/26/the-glut-kitchen-garden/#comment-5969 maureen Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:35:07 +0000 http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/?p=360#comment-5969 Gloria, congrats on acquiring your allotment plot. I have had mine for 20 months now and it has been an amazing journey. I had only ever grown tomatoes and a courgette plant in a pot before in the garden, and now I have grown almost everything and had gluts of all sorts. My fruit has enabled me to make your lovely curds. I look forward to reading how you get on. Gloria, congrats on acquiring your allotment plot. I have had mine for 20 months now and it has been an amazing journey. I had only ever grown tomatoes and a courgette plant in a pot before in the garden, and now I have grown almost everything and had gluts of all sorts.
My fruit has enabled me to make your lovely curds.
I look forward to reading how you get on.

]]> By: deborah s m http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/2009/10/26/the-glut-kitchen-garden/#comment-5956 deborah s m Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:39:06 +0000 http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/?p=360#comment-5956 Gloria, what a plot, it couldn't be more perfect, walls are so useful as a shelter, to reflect the heat,to protect and to provide a place to espallier fruit. 5ft high is pretty ideal, you could have apricots and peaches, pears and red and white currants [you can espallier these too] The small weed growing by the tent peg is eyebright, speedwell.... just dig it in as a green manure... that will further enrich the soil. I recommend mushroom compost to bulk up the light soil, this is usually very cheap as it is cleared very regularly from the mushroom farms. Is there one near you? This will be a continuing conversation, brilliant! and it will feed you. Tonight we are eating [all home grown] scorzonera sauteed in butter, a salad of chicory and lambs lettuce, another of walnuts, [from Jill and A] red onion and parsley. borlotti beans on bruschetta. Corsham apples for pudding. Hannah collected all the remaining damsons, slightly soft but still OK and we won some giant medlars in the bee club raffle. Gloria, what a plot, it couldn’t be more perfect, walls are so useful as a shelter, to reflect the heat,to protect and to provide a place to espallier fruit. 5ft high is pretty ideal, you could have apricots and peaches, pears and red and white currants [you can espallier these too]
The small weed growing by the tent peg is eyebright, speedwell…. just dig it in as a green manure… that will further enrich the soil.
I recommend mushroom compost to bulk up the light soil, this is usually very cheap as it is cleared very regularly from the mushroom farms. Is there one near you?
This will be a continuing conversation, brilliant! and it will feed you.
Tonight we are eating [all home grown] scorzonera sauteed in butter, a salad of chicory and lambs lettuce, another of walnuts, [from Jill and A] red onion and parsley.
borlotti beans on bruschetta.
Corsham apples for pudding.
Hannah collected all the remaining damsons, slightly soft but still OK and we won some giant medlars in the bee club raffle.

]]> By: tigress http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/2009/10/26/the-glut-kitchen-garden/#comment-5954 tigress Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:49:15 +0000 http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/?p=360#comment-5954 your garden plot looks lovely! good luck with it all and i can't wait to hear about the things you grow and especially what you are going to pickle and jam! :) your garden plot looks lovely! good luck with it all and i can’t wait to hear about the things you grow and especially what you are going to pickle and jam! :)

]]> By: Emma http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/2009/10/26/the-glut-kitchen-garden/#comment-5947 Emma Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:52:22 +0000 http://www.laundryetc.co.uk/?p=360#comment-5947 Wow the beginning of exciting times. I love the shot of your wooden pegs marking out the soil. We have just gained an allotment too. Eight families in our village have signed up. We have to pay £30 a year. Between us! We're off to look at it for the first time on Sunday. I'm giddy with excitement. I have a dream to start a venture like this on it: http://www.flowersofhatch.co.uk/ ...but I think that might be daft. Wow the beginning of exciting times. I love the shot of your wooden pegs marking out the soil. We have just gained an allotment too. Eight families in our village have signed up. We have to pay £30 a year. Between us! We’re off to look at it for the first time on Sunday. I’m giddy with excitement. I have a dream to start a venture like this on it:

http://www.flowersofhatch.co.uk/

…but I think that might be daft.

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