Growing more and better
Cliff reflects on pansies, pollinators, early crops, experiments, and the many rewards of growing food together.
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And so for 2026
Possible developments: Improve marketing for www.cliffscardds.com Improve experience of being in hospital Investigate Magic Glasses, (TAVUP Zoom call in January) Explore Microsoft Seeing AI, use it to read a menu and recognise people in the restaurant or room Merlin Bird ID App, for identifying bid song. Try grow tunnels for early potatoes and also late…
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February 2025 and the sun came out
Spring / Summer 2025 Vegetables THE PRESENT PLAN IS BASED ON: Bought-in Plants: – Brassica Selection for cropping by 30 June (N9) – DT Brown Onion Sets * – Potatoes – (pots & bags) Our own seedlings: Red Cabbages (N9) Spinach Recent Seeds Sown: Spring Onions (N10) Aquadulce Broad Beans (N2) Sutton Broad Beans *…
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9 August 2024, Today’s Notes
9 August 2024, Today’s Notes 9 Aug, Ideas we discussed Sow now – Cupidon dwarf French Beans, – Xmas potatoes – Possibly Spinach – Possibly Winter leeks What vegetable for overwintering Onion sets Garlic Shallots Chard Aguadulce Broad Beans Spinach Selected brassicas Quadgrow Watering System, Cliff has already ordered: Marshalls Gardens, Autumn Onion…
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Somethings are getting better
At last the beans are thriving and the tomatoes look good. All the spare flowers are also making the allotment look good. So now we start next year. We have ordered the overwintering onions and shallots. We have been given some local heritage strawberries. Also we are trailing “Strulch” for keeping slugs at bay.
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11 May 2024 on the allotment
11 May 2024 on the Allotment As with the farmers and all other allotmenteers, we suffered a pretty appalling winter, too wet, too cold, no warmth. Just picture s field of mud. We have resown all the failures and so start the spring with new hopes. The prime performers so far are beetroot and celeriac,…
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T’wwas a cold and bitter night
T‘was a cold and bitter spring April 20th 2024. We hope we’ve survived and that will all be due to the polytunnel. We had to plant broad beans there because it has been so wet and cold. Now we have sown runner beans in trays but then will move them to a cold frame in…
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Seed etc Sowing Diary and Calendar
Seed SOWING Diary/ Rolling Calendar For the first time ever I decided to keep a document on my computer which would control what to buy (when) what to sow (when) an (where). This a copy of the document today, 23 Mar 2024. Some of these are just for fun and many are trials and U am…
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I over stretched myself – again
I over stretched myself – again It all started so easily: The Jazzxy potatoes arrived early and went on to start chitting Next there was an offer on some potato bags, which I’d never used before When they arrived I planted the Jazzy To protect them from frost I put them in the polytunnel severely…
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Allotment Feb 24
Eight years since I updated this. I suppose it was due to learning how to cope with sight loss and then there was Covid, but we are still here, nearly twenty years on! Recently we started a U3a Group called “Grow your own, for flavour” So the objective is flavour. The easy way is minimising…
