tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post5705435998071129686..comments2023-10-17T09:38:33.865+01:00Comments on Our New Life in the Country: I Miss the Food .....Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04177854521955532744noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post-66107859547378173382016-07-23T23:09:49.184+01:002016-07-23T23:09:49.184+01:00My garden is so very small, still waiting on a har...My garden is so very small, still waiting on a harvest.<br />Your blue berries are beautiful.anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269208573774815462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post-38641849909238815662016-07-23T23:01:59.905+01:002016-07-23T23:01:59.905+01:00Slowly but surely our garden is beginning to be ha...Slowly but surely our garden is beginning to be harvested. Hubby picked a tomato today!! The first of what we hope are many.<br /><br />God bless.Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16051183778965359500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post-77842286708936042332016-07-23T20:49:19.216+01:002016-07-23T20:49:19.216+01:00I've found so much of approved food seems to b...I've found so much of approved food seems to be junk at the moment, it goes in fits and spurts though.Kirstyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12046312998038020946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post-76839280037590592992016-07-22T23:17:19.018+01:002016-07-22T23:17:19.018+01:00My slow starting tomatoes have come on a treat but...My slow starting tomatoes have come on a treat but although lots and lots of flowers still very few actual tomatoes however my cucumbers are doing brilliantly. We've had several already and they seem to grow a mile a day! My blueberries are dismal this year. Hardly any fruit :( You win some you lose some. xMarksgranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02870471905590321642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post-88560996657941305682016-07-22T19:43:32.020+01:002016-07-22T19:43:32.020+01:00I think it must be swings and roundabouts Sue - I ...I think it must be swings and roundabouts Sue - I had NO courgettes last year, this year it will be a glut. I have wonderful garlic, about to be harvested, but last year's leeks died of hunger. I have ALWAYS had bumper crops of runner beans, but this year I just planted enough to keep me going, and they got slugged and I have had to start a 2nd lot to replace the 4 (yes, just 4!) plants which survived. Soft fruit has been good though and we will have a bumper apple harvest as usual.Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post-83558765024195429842016-07-22T16:10:55.170+01:002016-07-22T16:10:55.170+01:00Looking forward to more fruit next year. Gooseber...Looking forward to more fruit next year. Gooseberry,cherry, rhubarb and blackcurrant are all young plants. Strawberries did well and I have another flourish of flowers and fruit. I'm learning more each year from people like yourself. Living Alone in Your 60'shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08848266282669835475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post-41040074878284037582016-07-22T14:46:40.970+01:002016-07-22T14:46:40.970+01:00We no longer have a vegetable garden - the farmer ...We no longer have a vegetable garden - the farmer has grassed it over - so I really enjoy reading about other people's hard work. Our last year of growing resulted in a poor crop of onions and also leeks which went to seed.<br />Our neighbour (and brother in law)'s veg garden is visible from my back bedroom window. He is an excellent gardener and everything is put in and was growing to perfection. Now I see that his potatoes are dying off - I don't know why but it is the sort of thing that really makes one downhearted. We have an excellent Friday market here and I get my veg there - it is certainly less work.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post-12374509655212945692016-07-22T14:41:42.370+01:002016-07-22T14:41:42.370+01:00Really enjoy reading about you growing stuffReally enjoy reading about you growing stuffSimon Douglas Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16331409652996600049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post-28042886801181355962016-07-22T13:40:34.959+01:002016-07-22T13:40:34.959+01:00We don't have many blackcurrants this year but...We don't have many blackcurrants this year but have lots of lovely raspberries which have just ripened. The dogs have eaten all the strawberries as usual!!SusanMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09622557936441532144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post-66614326195350119772016-07-22T10:21:32.415+01:002016-07-22T10:21:32.415+01:00Our courgettes have gone mad this year, but our ve...Our courgettes have gone mad this year, but our veg plots are in a very sheltered corner of the garden, and the courgettes are also semi hidden by the broad beans, so that may be why. There are a lot of broad beans going in the freezer at the moment, we just can't keep up with them.<br />However, my blueberries are beautiful and plumptious, but still green, and the morning that I was going to net the red and blackcurrants, the blackbirds got there before me and stole the lot....well, not the lot, they left me one lonely little redcurrant! Colhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04191036562913935116noreply@blogger.com