It's ok @obelixx ... I wasn't planning on offering ... I love it I love pickles ... I usually use wine or good cider vinegar ... takes that harsh edge off and you get a lovely mellow flavour. Son is very keen on piccalilli too so I might just spare him a small jar
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Save me some for later Dove,didn't get up till gone 8. Really tired last night,went to bed at 9.30,to read,if I do go to sleep, will wake up when hubby comes in (very light sleeper) was still awake at 2,fox barking away,Dog growling. 6 no, NOT getting up,why don't I feel refreshed! I LL have the bread and cheese ready Dove.
I meant to tell you all that yesterday morning a chap appeared on my doorstep and asked if I could 'make use of this' and held out an 8" cucumber ... as it was our rather shy neighbour I didn't dissolve into fits of giggles ... and thanked him ... I told him that we've got a cucumber glut too, but was planning to make cucumber relish ... he said he'd not heard of it so I've given him the recipe.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have a lovely time at the christening @Busy-Lizzie - will be good to see all the family again 😀😀.
Cold and overcast here - no sign of the promised heatwave. Got errands to run this morning (post office etc) plus another trip to colour match embroidery threads 🌈. Then some more studying …..see if I can learn another 50 latin plant names 🤯
I use cider vinegar for most things @Dovefromabove unless sherry or balsamic or rice is called for. If our one remaining cucumber plant gets going - 2 small and several babies at the mo - I may well try your relish for OH who is not averse to vinegar.
Chooks!! Moving the compost bins certainly has stopped them flying out of the potager but we did let them out to play yesterday afternoon - and locked them out - while I watered the newly planted beetroot plugs and the brassicas I planted last week before netting the whole lot against chooks and butterflies and opening the gates again so they could roost happily in their newly scrubbed hen house and boxes.
This morning OH went off to buy more netting and found Polly in the garage when he got back and then I saw Bess legging it over along the pond and hidden by long grass and then up to the corner where our "garden" meets our paddock. She then disappeared. I went to check the others were OK and lo and behold Bess and Polly have learned to push the gates open and squeeze thru!
They are bigger and stronger than the other 3 so we have now had to tighten the fastening. Polly followed me down as there was sweetcorn on the go but it took me ages to find Bess. She'd found a gap under the stock fence and was crooning in the hedgerow along the road edge. No fence there, just mixed hedging which explains how Possum found her in the road the other day whilst walking the dogs.
We need more netting because someone has got into my PSB patch and stripped every stalk and then made a dust bath. More fence fixing and more serious netting needed then.
Determined madames!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I'm sure it's a nuisance, Obs, when they raid the veg patch, but it does make the heart glad that they are living such Chickeny lives No work this weekend - hurrah! It's cool and dry here, so good weather to get some cutting back and clearing done. If you're looking for me, I'll probably be in the shed, potting up self-seeders and other volunteers. I have a new bed in progress so am harvesting free plants from all over the place to fill it.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Dry bright start here, we spent the morning freezing runner beans. I decided I would cut the grass, looked out and it's raining. Got that wrong then. 🙁
Hi folks, I've been busy deadheading and feeding plants this morning. 'I'm having a break from furniture painting still have 2 dining chairs and a dresser to paint but I've had enough and need a change. Took delivery of a new carpet shampooer this morning so I'll be playing with that later. Not a lover of piccalilli, it's the look of it rather than the taste. Good story about the cucumber @Dovefromabove Those are crafty chooks you've got there @Obelixx Hugs for @Hostafan1
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You may need to me remind me, because it tends to slip through that colander I have for a brain!
Cold and overcast here - no sign of the promised heatwave. Got errands to run this morning (post office etc) plus another trip to colour match embroidery threads 🌈. Then some more studying …..see if I can learn another 50 latin plant names 🤯
Have a good day everyone. 😁
Chooks!! Moving the compost bins certainly has stopped them flying out of the potager but we did let them out to play yesterday afternoon - and locked them out - while I watered the newly planted beetroot plugs and the brassicas I planted last week before netting the whole lot against chooks and butterflies and opening the gates again so they could roost happily in their newly scrubbed hen house and boxes.
This morning OH went off to buy more netting and found Polly in the garage when he got back and then I saw Bess legging it over along the pond and hidden by long grass and then up to the corner where our "garden" meets our paddock. She then disappeared. I went to check the others were OK and lo and behold Bess and Polly have learned to push the gates open and squeeze thru!
They are bigger and stronger than the other 3 so we have now had to tighten the fastening. Polly followed me down as there was sweetcorn on the go but it took me ages to find Bess. She'd found a gap under the stock fence and was crooning in the hedgerow along the road edge. No fence there, just mixed hedging which explains how Possum found her in the road the other day whilst walking the dogs.
We need more netting because someone has got into my PSB patch and stripped every stalk and then made a dust bath. More fence fixing and more serious netting needed then.
Determined madames!
No work this weekend - hurrah! It's cool and dry here, so good weather to get some cutting back and clearing done. If you're looking for me, I'll probably be in the shed, potting up self-seeders and other volunteers. I have a new bed in progress so am harvesting free plants from all over the place to fill it.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Good story about the cucumber @Dovefromabove
Those are crafty chooks you've got there @Obelixx
Hugs for @Hostafan1