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Dave the Gardener: August 2012
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Friday, 31 August 2012. Fangs for the memory. I'm off to Alness Show tomorrow so this evening I went to pull the last barrel of parsnips to try and get a set of three. Can you imagine how I felt when the first and third ones I pulled came out looking like this? Thankfully the other three gave me a set - not the best but they'll look okay on the bench. Tuesday, 28 August 2012. My mate Simon has a lot of strawberries in his p/tunnel and I got a call saying to come and help myself as he had too many! I did ...
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Dave the Gardener: July 2012
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Sunday, 22 July 2012. Top Tray won by Wattie McBeath from The Doll. And I got a second for this vase (alright I used a bucket! Of garden flowers - all from Scotsburn Garden, the subject of my other blog, where I work on Tuesdays. Thought I'd post pics of some of the things growing at Ballone Castle in the courtyard garden at the moment. Outside we have some pretty impressive cardoon thistles that are between 7 and 8 ft tall and almost ready to produce their lovely purple flowers. Tuesday, 17 July 2012.
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Dave the Gardener: Tattie Time
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Sunday, 12 August 2012. With the local show only a week ago, I took the time today to go through my show tatties and try and get some sort of order before I make my final selection and washand clean them on Thursday night in preparation for the bench. I cut the shaws (haulms if you live in the south) off last week and the bags have been left for a week to help the skins to set on the tatties. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Fangs for the memory. Tain Horticultural Show 2012. View my complete profile.
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Dave the Gardener: Alness Show 2012
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Monday, 3 September 2012. Runner Beans, (though there were a couple of iffy ones on my board if I do say so myself). And long beetroot.- which i somehow managed to miss taking a photo of. I also won a red card for Sweet Peas (which I entered and staged on behalf of Scotsburn Garden - see my other blog). That's our entry at the rear (12 blooms). I got blue cards for my parsnips (I did manage to get three that were okay), my potatoes (coloured) and my cauliflower. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Dave the Gardener: March 2012
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Sunday, 11 March 2012. With Maggie off running the Inverness Half Marathon today, I got back out into the garden to get some more jobs done as it's getting close to that manic time of year. After topping up and levelling all the barrels, I cored out the two for the parsnips and filled them with the mix. That leaves me three for my long carrots (though I may be tempted to have two for long carrots and one for long beets. After messing about with my "fussy veg" ( a term coined by my daughter) I started bac...
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Dave the Gardener: Strawberry Glut
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012. My mate Simon has a lot of strawberries in his p/tunnel and I got a call saying to come and help myself as he had too many! So yesterday evening I went over with the girls to p[ick a few. Well the girls abandoned me in favour of playing with the Wii, so I picked two large bowls - approx 8lbs. And tonight I have made a large batch of "no cook" strawberry jam and started two batches of Strawberry Gin which should be ready for the festive season. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Dave the Gardener: Fangs for the memory
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Friday, 31 August 2012. Fangs for the memory. I'm off to Alness Show tomorrow so this evening I went to pull the last barrel of parsnips to try and get a set of three. Can you imagine how I felt when the first and third ones I pulled came out looking like this? Thankfully the other three gave me a set - not the best but they'll look okay on the bench. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Fangs for the memory. Tain Horticultural Show 2012. View my complete profile. Blogs and Websites of interest.
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Dave the Gardener: Sutherland Show 2012
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Sunday, 22 July 2012. Top Tray won by Wattie McBeath from The Doll. And I got a second for this vase (alright I used a bucket! Of garden flowers - all from Scotsburn Garden, the subject of my other blog, where I work on Tuesdays. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Slow Slow Quick Quick Slow. Veg and other stuff. Live about 35 miles north of Inverness with lovely wife and two beautiful daughters, Not got a lot of spare time as I work 6 days a week as a gardener and two nights a week as a bouncer.
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Dave the Gardener: September 2011
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Wednesday, 14 September 2011. If you go down to the woods today. You better not get in my way! Sunday, 11 September 2011. Polytunnel wind up and wind down. I went back out with Niamh (3 year old daughter / princess) this afternoon where we picked another huge pile of tomatoes, completely defoliating the plants as we went, to let those fruits still to ripen do so a wee bit quicker. We also picked the very last of the calabrese, a savoy cabbage, runner beans and some bell peppers. The pot baside each Marro...
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Dave the Gardener: September 2012
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Thursday, 6 September 2012. Here is this years batch of Spitfire Sauce - I usually have enough to make over 100 jars which I sell locally but due to lack of polytunnel this year, my chilli production has been seriously reduced. However, there are approximately 250 big red cayenne peppers in this batch - seeds'n'all. Monday, 3 September 2012. Runner Beans, (though there were a couple of iffy ones on my board if I do say so myself). And long beetroot.- which i somehow managed to miss taking a photo of.
