tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post3906884201793692880..comments2024-01-01T17:12:52.814+00:00Comments on The Flour Loft: Harvest reflection...ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515408775915060169noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-47271752721950707942007-09-11T20:15:00.000+01:002007-09-11T20:15:00.000+01:00Hello thanks for leaving comments..internet been o...Hello thanks for leaving comments..internet been off so really good to find all your messages today. <BR/>Hi Carolyn-Your friends' tomatoes sound 'delish' ( to coin a new JO favourite word).<BR/>Hi Victoria- we have had a good share of slugs and snails too, they have just loved the weather. My husband's 'favourite' pastime is to pick the slugs off at night!<BR/>Hello Jane- how wonderful to have inspired some young gardeners and to give the kids a sense of connection to, and pride in, growing their own food.<BR/>Hey Louise.. all i have to say is 'For Mash get Smash'! and yes i do remember although i was obviously quite young!(am going through a sudden realisation that 40 is nearly upon me).<BR/>Hi Tracy- always in awe of nature.<BR/>Tash- your garden sounds wonderful .. know exactly what you mean.. gardening really is good for the soul. <BR/>Suzie and alice c- even though we only had a few am really thrilled with the carrots.. luckily we didn't have to share them with Peter Rabbit. <BR/>French knots- we had pesky slugs on our rocket too.. i didn't think they would like the pepperyness but i was wrong.<BR/>GiGi- look forward to seeing some railway sleeper action down your way.. remember, most importantly.. they are a bas*ard to lift... foolishly we got the chunkiest ones although you don't need to. My advice.. get lots of helpers. <BR/>ginnyxginnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515408775915060169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-72507439684562092722007-09-10T22:14:00.000+01:002007-09-10T22:14:00.000+01:00Love your raised beds....I am currently looking in...Love your raised beds....I am currently looking in to having a bit of railway sleeper action in my garden:)Gigibirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13171021812450232039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-58237308569411500152007-09-10T20:20:00.000+01:002007-09-10T20:20:00.000+01:00those carrots...I can almost smell how fresh they ...those carrots...I can almost smell how fresh they are and bursting with goodness.<BR/>Suzie SewsSuzie Sews At DOTTY REDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08315491316461177952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-28530058718967686082007-09-10T20:13:00.000+01:002007-09-10T20:13:00.000+01:00You have had a great season and some super looking...You have had a great season and some super looking produce. The raised beds look great, really traditional as well as productive.I'm going to buy a blunderbuss for next year to wage war on the slugs and snails, they even ate all my rocket which was growing in a tub in the greenhouse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-56842674620205800962007-09-10T18:39:00.000+01:002007-09-10T18:39:00.000+01:00What a lovely harvest - your children will always ...What a lovely harvest - your children will always remember the fun and the delicious taste and will want to recreate it as adults.<BR/><BR/>Those carrots look fab - just right for Peter Rabbit!alice chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969805206040091585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-88269623002019352642007-09-10T15:49:00.000+01:002007-09-10T15:49:00.000+01:00There is nothing so wonderfully British as a well-...There is nothing so wonderfully British as a well-kept and ordered vegetable garden, and yours looks delicious!<BR/><BR/>We're still harvesting things (courgettes, tomatoes, potatoes, salad leaves, runner beans, borlotti beans) but there are things I've learnt this year, things I will grow again (Painted Lady runner beans are the best - and prettiest - I've ever had) and things I won't, but more than anything it's being close to, and working with the land that is what I love the most. Hurrah for gardeners!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-33304126414304739962007-09-10T13:51:00.000+01:002007-09-10T13:51:00.000+01:00What a scrummy post! I love gardening too...it nev...What a scrummy post! I love gardening too...it never fails to amaze me what comes from but a teeny, tiny seed...However, with all the wet weather this summer, our veg patch was a wash out! Better luck next year :o) Love your alien potato--LOL! Happing Harvest-Happy Eating!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-47880956828819395012007-09-10T13:50:00.000+01:002007-09-10T13:50:00.000+01:00Hi Ginny .. Your raised bed looks great and you ha...Hi Ginny .. Your raised bed looks great and you have had a really productive year in the garden, well done to you, your hubby and your kids. All your vegetables look fantastic, it must be the depth of soil in your beds that has done the trick. As far as the tomatoes go, it is bad luck but don’t worry, as you say not even Gardener’s World could come up with a decent tomato this year and look at how many people they have fussing around at Berryfields at one time. I only grow small cherry tomatoes, for the last few years, Garden Pearl (Gartenperle) have been a huge success, even this year I had a fair few, they are so sweet and juicy and just great to pick off the plants like cherries as you go around the garden and lovely in salads or with bacon and cheese in an omelette. One final thing, can you remember the Cadburys Smash alien, your potato with another antenna that is, could have been a double, apologies if you are too young to remember!this is my patchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02865567572989902864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-13368705323701826032007-09-10T13:46:00.000+01:002007-09-10T13:46:00.000+01:00It has been a rubbish year for veg hasn't it - unf...It has been a rubbish year for veg hasn't it - unfortunately this is the year my daughters decided to take over the veg growing - I hope it hasn't put them off for life.<BR/>Mind you at the school - with the super-duper new raised beds - we planted peas and carrots and they were all ready to harvest first week back - children were eating whole carrots for lunch and taking them home to show their parents. One mother told me that her son had always refused to eat carrots before he helped to grow these ones.<BR/>That made me so happy.<BR/>I like your sleeper beds.<BR/>Our tomatoes are tiny - dolls house tomatoes rather than cherry ones.<BR/>J<BR/>xJanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14576982065729973318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-3363774440283983622007-09-10T11:26:00.000+01:002007-09-10T11:26:00.000+01:00I love Monty. I was was so relieved when he said h...I love Monty. I was was so relieved when he said his tomatoes had failed too!<BR/><BR/>Seeing your raised beds has inspired me to get on create some of my own - the slugs and snails have loved my vegetables this year. The railway sleepers look great.<BR/><BR/>Looks like you have had some wonderful crops.<BR/><BR/>Victoria xVictoria May Plumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17763403790554172946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-74899094502190437792007-09-10T09:51:00.000+01:002007-09-10T09:51:00.000+01:00Not very good at veg and haven't grown any ourselv...Not very good at veg and haven't grown any ourselves this year. Our neighbour gave us a couple of courgette plants and even they have failed dismally, flowering but the baby courgettes have started to rot on the vine. We are having a wonderful year for tomatoes though, not our own our lovely 82 year old friend has a glut this year, he grew under glass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-83133541687427013762007-09-10T07:45:00.000+01:002007-09-10T07:45:00.000+01:00Us too. Don't you just love Monty! such a gentle s...Us too. Don't you just love Monty! such a gentle soul.<BR/>ginnyginnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515408775915060169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382578325053172206.post-31660227794799884422007-09-10T07:39:00.000+01:002007-09-10T07:39:00.000+01:00Hello Ginny. Your garden looks great, very produc...Hello Ginny. <BR/>Your garden looks great, very productive. I was also disappointed by my tomatoes but felt much better about them when I learned that even TV tomatoes failed this year!!willowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05818659940895641160noreply@blogger.com