The 'What I Did Today' Archive - 2007

[Nicos]

Peeled,cooked and froze apples....
then I peeled ,cooked and froze some more....
then I did it all again several more times.....
and I'll be doing some more again later!!

I'll probably be doing some more when I'm asleep

[muckdiva]

Got some wire coathangers off freecycle to cut in half and peg down my weed control membrane and fleece.

[pigletwillie]

Today I pickled a load of baby beets, make some steak and kidney pies and a load of spiced runner bean pickle.

Oh and collected my delivery of "music" garlic from the sorting office as I missed the postie.

[scarey55]

Wrestled a bit more of the wilderness for veg plot.

[scared55]

... and I, without my dog, mowed the meadow.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Wot I made toady from the Hill...

Using beetroot and onions (and a couple of bought bramleys) - beetroot chutney
Using onions and potatoes - cottage pies
Using onions and garlic (oh all right, a tin of toms too!) - bolognase

Also a batch of mmmmmmmmm homer biscuits (abbey crunch)

Now taking french beans and potatoes to mums ready for when she gets back from her hols tomorrow

[pigletwillie]

Today I rescued another batch of baby toads from certain death at work and released them onto the lottie. Once home I took lots of penstemon cuttings, some hebe cuttings and some phygelia cuttings and now have several pots on the kitchen windowsill, so hopefully I will have a few new plants come the spring.

[JennieAtkinson]

Well last night we had the first of the minimop corn. Just one cob in a stir fry. It was very nice.

Today the wind had died down so I managed to:
dig up another fair chunk of my maincrop potatoes and had them drying on the lawn
dug up another third of the onions where the tops had gone over
harvested the rest of the garlic, peas and broad beans outside
harvested and froze 1.5 lbs of runner beans, 2lbs of french beans and 2lb of late rhubarb

Then tidied up the tunnel and generally pottered away until the rain and strong winds arrived again at about 3pm. Lovely day, finished off with a good soak in some new aromatherapy oils for bad backs and a good G&T and then a spag bol made from my own carrots, onions, garlic and sadly not tomatoes.

[kernowyon]

after getting gentle reminder from chairman re paths and weeds on plots, spent today weeding, weeding and a bit more weeding, then went home and prepared for night shift. lovely

[Hazel at the Hill]

At the Hill dug up fab-o parsnip for roasting this evening, a spectacularly pretty snowball turnip, my best carrot yet, and a load of French and runner beans.

Scoffed a load of it for tea! Mmmmmm!

Good, this growing lark, ain't it!

[wellie]

Have been harvesting Swede, Florence Fennel, Yellow PattyPan Summer Squashes, fresh Borlotti Beans (to die for in my opinion), Chillies, Peppers, Fresh Herbs, Beetroot, Bolting Leeks and Tomatoes by the absolute Smug Trug load, and using all my lovely cookery books to make dishes that Trousers and I have never tried before. Different recipes every year made from the same varieties of produce, keeps Wellie on her culinary toes, and Trousers contented.
Thank you for listening,

[heebiejeebie]

Saturday: weeding and mowing and harvested a marrow.
Sunday: deadheaded the dahlias and then put up the chicken coop

[Winged one]

Yesterday morning at work - made out a 1st draft of a planting plan for next year.

Yesterday when we got home - harvested 3 ripe tomatoes for my lunch today and took away some more leaves blocking sun from the heaps of green ones.

Last night under the security light - plaited the garlics (not nearly as neat as the onions) into 3 plaits of 10 each and the last of the onions (only 9 onions in that last plait) and hung them in the shed just as it started to rain.

[wellie]

Today, Trousers and I went off t'Lottie and admired the very handsome weeds we have grown, and picked a few yellow and green courgettes. Having forgotten to take the watering can, we picked half a kilo of Damsons from the trees at the end by Ken's plot, which will become Damson Gin tomorrow, and went to the Lottie Local for a beer.
Back to the Lottie tomorrow WITH the watering can, and will pick more Damsons for Sarah Raven's Damson Icecream, more Gin, and Damson & Almond Pudding, and Jam, and Relish, and..........oh, her new recipe book is good.... get the picture?
And have just harvested another Wellie Smug Trug from The Potager....
Thank you for listening,

[pigletwillie]

A quick trip to the plots saw lots of strawbs waiting to be picked, along with sweetcorn, pumpkins and courgettes. I had to pop into snaffle a bit of offcut tunnel plastic to forge a temporary repair to my workshop roof as its leaking. Well, if I do take too many holidays how can I ever afford the roof tiles.

After making things watertight, it was onto pruning the "constance spy" rose growing up the workshop wall and up the rose arch ready for winter. the prunings making a start to the bonfire that will be lit come November 3rd. I still need to do the wisteria and will hopefully get that done tommorow after work.