October round-up
October was rather busy with work, and my back continued to give me problems, hence the lack of blogging. Here is a round-up on a couple of things that I/we got up to. Earlier in the month Kevin, Jackie and …
Food Speculation and Worst Lobby Awards
Back in June I mentioned WDM’s new campaign on food speculation, Stop Betting on Hunger. I’ve been meaning to write more about it, but have been so busy with work and my naughty back playing up, that I’ve not had …
West Papua – Cameron replies
Back in July I blogged about the West Papuan’s who hoped that David Cameron might be the hero they were looking for. Cameron let the West Papuan independence movement believe he supported their aims. I finally received a response from …
Harvest Fame
After blogging about the Harvest Festival on Sunday, I was called up by the Oxford Mail (no correlation, I doubt the Oxford Mail reads my blog!) and interviewed me about the festival. An article is going in tomorrows paper, and …
Harvest Festival
Yesterday was the harvest festival at Barracks Lane Community Garden. I don’t know why I haven’t written more about the garden before, given I love it and I work for it two days a week! Somehow I’ve never got around …
Pretty picture
I’ve not have time or the energy to blog in the last week or two, so here’s a pretty picture of something* flowering in my garden at the moment. Don’t even ask me about the lottie, I haven’t been about …
Front garden – brief update
Since completing the redesign of the front garden back in April, it’s been coming along slowly but nicely. I’ve already had in the raised beds broad beans and lettuce growing, eaten and removed and since sowed more vegetables, such as …
Garlic harvest
Dug up all my garlic on the weekend and its now drying in the Lemony. As you can see, I’ve carefully separated out each variety so I can continue to collate information about each. I plan on saving the ones …
The Potato and Tomato must have – Blightwatch!
Thanks to VP for alerting us gardeners to Blightwatch. If you grow potatoes (me, 17 varieties this year!) or tomatoes and worry about blight, then this is the service for you. Read all about it on VP’s blog and then …