An Ordinary Person’s Views on Living With Minimal Environmental Impact
Written by Clare on 21st Jul 2008.
Ok, still no courgettes, but we did eat our first lot of produce this weekend.
We decided that the Shetland Black potatoes had died back enough to harvest them. I was a little nervous that there would be nothing there. That wasn’t the case, but it was not the greatest harvest ever seen (see [...]
Written by Clare on 17th Jun 2008.
So, the courgette is dead, the beans are under attack, has it all gone wrong? Fortunately, no it hasn’t. I did a quick stocktake today and a few days with some sun and no rain has allowed the plants to put a bit of a growth spurt on and stick two fingers up [...]
Written by Clare on 13th Apr 2008.
Today I decided that I had better get on with sowing some of the seeds that I had planned to do last weekend. So in went the courgettes, two types of beans (blauhilde and hildora), some sweetcorn and cavolo nero (I have never grown this last one before so it will definitely be a [...]
Written by Clare on 9th Mar 2008.
When I first moved to Daventry my back garden was a barren wasteland with respect to little feathered friends. Eventually, after putting out peanuts and other bird foods, rather than the expected starlings and sparrows, our first visitors were greenfinches. We have welcomed these back every year, including some youngsters, numbers increasing as [...]
Written by Clare on 25th Nov 2007.
Last Sunday it snowed here in Daventry (and in numerous other places in the Midlands). The snow settled, but had gone by morning. On thinking about this I cannot remember the last time I saw snow in November - it snows in April more than in November, and this time last year there [...]