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Six on Saturday – Summer’s Swansong
31/08/2019 We are in that time of abundance in the year where there’s still plenty to harvest, pick and admire, but there are also overtones of completion and change. As a former astronomer I hold with summer stretching on till … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Six on Saturday, Vegetables
Tagged Achocha, Figs, Gardening, Grasses, Lavatera trimestris 'Dwarf Pink Blush', Meadow flowers, Wood Aster
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Six on a Saturday – Cosmocracy!
Well, we’ve had a few dribs and drabs of rain recently and it seems to be cheering the plants up no end. The beans are romping up their canes (and not just the runners!), courgettes are swelling in nice quantities … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Six on Saturday, The home garden
Tagged Achocha, Agastache, Daisies, Gardening, Photography, Roses, vegetables
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Wordless Wednesday – Achochas: Echoes of the Incas
Sources: Book – The Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation Seeds – 3 different Achocha varieties are available from The Real Seed Catalogue
Posted in Food, Vegetables, Wordless
Tagged Achocha, Caigua, Cyclanthera pedata, Gardening, Grow-your-own, Harvest, Incas, Photography, Slipper gourd, vegetables
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Lost in the plot @RHSHydeHall
Last week we visited Hyde Hall in Essex. Hyde Hall is one of the RHS‘s flagship gardens, but it is in fact a relatively new creation. As recently as 1950 it was just a windswept farm on a bare hilltop. … Continue reading
Posted in Out and about, Vegetables
Tagged #Growyourown, Achocha, Dahlias, Gardening, litchi tomato, Photography, RHS Hyde Hall, vegetables
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