Don't talk to me about Cat Mint!!! -Boots the Bengal as one major passion in life -Tear up Cat Mint Roots/Flowers/Stalks and all, roll on it for hours and then leave it in a depressing heap, preferably on the front doorstep wrapped round mouse or vole!!! -Actually, I don't mind because I have plently. Pushkin is into Lavender (I don't dare ask questions about this! -Put it this way -He likes flowers!) Bipsy just likes beating up lumps of earth and my Norman boy (who is ill at the moment) just watched from a distance -aloof.
I think I might move raspberries as well, they just do not like the driveway border which is gravelly, and though wet in Winter, just shrugs off water the rest of the year. I admit I failed here with my ideas of a Fruit bed along the spare ground beside the drive, but at least I tried. How do you cook Kale???-Now have loads of it.Should it be frosted first like Sprouts? Should ask on another Thread but no time at present. Wet wet wet today. Farmer's Market a damp affair but did buy some more herbs to overwinter in greenhouse.
Guinness a great treat. Drowning my sorrows a bit at the moment. My Mum (92) is in hospital with pneumonia, have been told to expect the worst. Very traumatic.
Anyway the garden is a great comfort. Lots of long walks contemplating life
Cook kale like spring greens - remove rib, cut green leaves into strips and steam or sauté with butter and garlic, add pine nuts and raisins for a Venetian feel and maybe some chopped fresh chili. It can be shredded finely and deep fried - Chinese "seaweed" - added to soups such as minestrone, made into pesto like sauces.
Fingers crossed for you mum.
PS - we have had some rain. 8mm but it has stopped now. Enough to wet the windows and make trees drip but not to wet the ground to any depth.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Bio , sorry to hear about your mum , hope she gets better Rasberrys , I seem to remember reading you should plant them North to South but can’t remember why ? I mulch mine and feed them twice a year with Blood Fish & Bone
Kale we just Steam it I have a cat visiting allotments , very friendly 🐈 . Hope Norman gets better Guiness , Agree nice drink but does taste different in Ireland 🇮🇪 , the water
Thank you for your best wishes. Kept myself busy yesterday moving sulky Rhubarb and whole Strawberry Bed! Redcurrants now happily settled in semi shade of Potager and mulched Raspberries. Potted up some strawberry runners to over winter in greenhouse. Norman Cat much better. Glad you have a little pal GWRS, once they befriend you it is hard to resist! Bio D Association Lecture tonight - Lombricomposting (Worms to you and I!) -Will report. Enjoyed Countryfile last night. Did not realise how few birds you have in UK now. Love the new Calender.
Hello , don’t know if you remember but I was going to let some radish go to seed and try eating the pods , well did that and didn’t think much of them , have to try these things Intresting about decline of Birds , locally over the last few years there has been a big increase in Birds of Prey , for example Sparrow Hawks in garden and Buzzards at allotment Enjoy your lecture
Looking forward to Gardening Fair this w/e but cloud hanging over me as Mother passed away this morning at 6.45am French Time -Sun just coming up, strange golden light -Was it only me that saw it as O/H said it was still dark? - Really strange. Will look up Pet Special next week.
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Fingers crossed for you mum.
PS - we have had some rain. 8mm but it has stopped now. Enough to wet the windows and make trees drip but not to wet the ground to any depth.
Rasberrys , I seem to remember reading you should plant them North to South but can’t remember why ?
I mulch mine and feed them twice a year with Blood Fish & Bone
Kale we just Steam it
I have a cat visiting allotments , very friendly 🐈 . Hope Norman gets better
Guiness , Agree nice drink but does taste different in Ireland 🇮🇪 , the water
Intresting about decline of Birds , locally over the last few years there has been a big increase in Birds of Prey , for example Sparrow Hawks in garden and Buzzards at allotment
Enjoy your lecture
Regards
Apparently that bright glow was a meteor burning up in the atmosphere instead of thumping to earth.