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Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Did you ever eat Colcannon, made from lovely pickled cream?
With the greens and scallions mingled like a picture in a dream.
Did you ever make a hole on top to hold the melting flake
Of the creamy, flavoured butter that your mother used to make?
Yes you did, so you did, so did he and so did I.
And the more I think about it, sure, the nearer I’m to cry.
Oh, wasn’t it the happy days when troubles we had not,
And our mothers made Colcannon in the little skillet pot.
Colcannon (The Skillet Pot) Traditional Irish song
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Monday, March 14th, 2011
Custom has it that if you are to find a pea pod with nine or more peas in it that you can make a wish for whatever you heart desires. Now with the cold snap that we often experience in spring I’m willing to bet quite a few early seed sowers would have wished for milder weather. Reports filter in to me each spring of over-enthusiastic gardeners who have had their young seedlings totally blackened by a late frost.
Amongst the usual casualties are cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, spring onion, and beetroot, both in the open ground and within unheated glasshouses or polytunnels. All I can say to them is keep the chin up, don’t be downhearted, as it’s early in the growing season, so you’ve plenty of time to set a new batch of seeds. Let peas be one of them, and I can assure you that with a little care you will have a bountiful harvest.
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Community gardens are fun, but it seems for Dean Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland that fun is more than just growing your own veg.
Dean Gardens, overlooking the New Town and the Water of Leith, had been hijacked by youths for use as a drinking area.
And no, it was not tomato juice or a cabbage smoothie they were imbibing.
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Tags: cabbage, community gardens, community members, Dean Gardens, drinking area, Edinburgh, Leith, New Town, police, Scotland, site, smoothie, tomato juice, youths
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Summer cabbage…. With its peak harvest in August and September this vegetable provides an excellent source of Vitamin C leading up and through autumn. All health benefits aside summer cabbage has had its image tarnished by the soggy mush that’s served up by school and work canteens. In this guide I hope banish the soggy cabbage blues as I show you how to cook cabbage correctly, but first let’s look at how to grow summer cabbage at home.
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
As a child, Easter meant one thing to me… Easter eggs.
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Tags: acidic soil, agricultural lime, air dry, ammendment, annuals, beans, blossom end rot, boil, boiled eggs, brassica, brassica-family, butterflies, cabbage, cabbage butterfly, cabbage-white butterflies, cabbages, calcium, calcium carbonate, caterpillars, cauliflowers, chicken eggs, child, compost, compost heap, crop, Crushed shells, cutworm, dehydrate, dust, Easter, Easter Bunny, Easter eggs, Easter Sunday, eggs, eggshells, garden, garden birds, gardening, gardens, leaf, liquid feed, long grass, membrane, minerals, morning, nitrogen, perennials, pH, plastic bag, raw eggs, rolling pin, salt, slug, snail, soil, tomatoes, tool, underbellies, United Kingdom, vegetables, warm water
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Last week I wrote about a solution to lack of space for growing salad vegetables faced by balcony and patio gardeners.
That was the window box vegetable garden.
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