Urban Food Gardening

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Lighting not great, but quick visit to the tunnel yielded bounty. Gazpacho on the menu tonight, will have to fund a suitable end for the squash and aubergines

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Red medium sized tomato, with a hint of purple. Good texture, reasonable flavour. Ripened inside, so need to try growing again to give it a chance.

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Large for a cherry, dark colour. Better grown in a hanging basket. Sweet! Great in salads.

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Large pink tomato. Great flavour and texture.

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Medium tomato. Prolific. Tasty, tangy, a little mealy. Almost like an apple.

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Medium, early ripening. Good size plant. Very tasty, a nice bite. Good texture. So tasty, I forgot to save seeds!

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Very productive plant. Lots of big plum shaped fruits. So many that plants are falling over.Early cropper. Good flavour. Sweet, not tangy. Smooth texture.

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De nice a ronde, trailing green marrow and patty pan the best producers so far. The pickling cucumbers are very bitter. Crookneck all very small so far. Lots of male flowers being produced, so ne...

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A small pinkish tomato. Seeds all germinated, loads of healthy plants. Plenty of fruits per plant. Tomatoes go from green to a pearly colour before turning a pinkish red. Taste so far is unexcept...

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This months Foodie Penpa l exchange was a lovely start to the year. My package from Jenny at Silver Screen Suppers arrived last Monday, but I wasn't home during daylight hours till later in the...

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Weather was very mild this weekend, so a few things achieved in the tunnel and outside. I had planted broad beans inside, these were a good dive, so I put them in one of the new tunnel beds. It w...

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It may be a little early, but I seem to recall early spinach doing well before, so I'll start some off inside, and move to the tunnel and plant in beds as soon as they have a few leaves. Planted ...

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Thanks to all of you that are still reading the blog - I haven't been updating it nearly often enough, but I'm hoping to track the polytunnel progress - as much for myself as anything, but there'...

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Late last year I had a big birthday. And rather than throw a party, I decided to gift myself a poly tunnel (hoop house to the yanks). It went up In November. That's a 'bath chair' you can see...

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Very late posting this, but between travel and Christmas, the time has not been right till now. After a disappointing exchange in October, when my package never arrived, the November exchange c...

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After a bit of misdirection, and much anticipation, my package arrived today. Edith was spot on - Japanese goodies, Indian spices to inspire me, poppadums, chocolate flapjacks for the boys - they...

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Pig on a spit, cheffy demonstrations, delicious organic beef and pork, all making for an excellent way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

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Foodie Pen pals is a idea that started in the US only a year ago. It has really taken off, and I'm delighted to be a new member of the UK/Europe part of the program. I signed up for September, I...

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My soapmaking course participants prevailed upon me to teach a Natural Cosmetics course, so I'm planning to run it as an evening course, on June 14th. It will be at Mullingar Educate Together ...

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Once again, I'm planning a summer camp - at Mullingar Educate Togethr NS. We'll be making the most of the organic garden that was a part of the school's 2011 Pride of Place award - it's their ...

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A busy weekend ahead for me, with my soapmaking course on Saturday , and 'A Taste of Westmeath' in the Park hotel on Sunday. Doors open at 12:00, the usual purveyors of fine food - including...

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Hi - I've been away from this blog for ages - and my 3 gardens are suffering from similar neglect! My college course is almost over, and I'm looking forward to getting blogging again - and to...

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Little Gull in centre of group, another to the right on 'final approach'. Blue cast due to photo being taken from a distance, through a window, on an iPhone, and before I had my coffee this morn...

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... when you start seeing sea-birds in the back garden, this far from the coast. We're right in the middle of the country, and we have some unusual visitors fighting off the Starlings and (less s...

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