Archive For The “Preserves” Category
Quince (Cydonia oblonga) is right at the top of my fruit-trees-I-would-plant-if-I-had-any-room-left list. Right now, I don’t have any space left in my garden to plant one. That, however, does not really stop me. I planted quince “Champion” in my parents’ garden and then, when one of the ornamental beds in ours street needed to be [...]
The tomatillo’s are the ideal plants for the “otherwise ingaged” vegetable grower. Because I knew we would have to leave our allotment on 1st October, I did not look after my garden as well as I normally do. We mulched very little and weeded even less. Because the soil was in very good shape, after [...]
It seems a long time ago, but at midterm we went to England. The weather was much better than one is justified to hope for at the end of October and the skies were a brilliant blue most of the time. Since I planned the journey, it meant visiting a lot of gardens. Since we [...]
Yesterday I wrote an article about the 2011 season in the vegetable garden. So far, here in the Netherlands, we have experienced the warmest spring with the lowest rainfall in more than 100 years, followed by a cool and gloomy summer with the highest rainfall in more than 100 years. Which again, to keep things [...]
