tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15646653.post114953727293068663..comments2023-10-29T16:15:17.292+01:00Comments on Allotment Lady Lives Again!: Friday the 2nd June's work up the allotmentAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243672302584272760noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15646653.post-1149636736007157482006-06-07T00:32:00.000+01:002006-06-07T00:32:00.000+01:00i am coming for new potatoes, we will scrap the sk...i am coming for new potatoes, we will scrap the skin off roll in corn meal and fry until golden brown , ar. foodpatsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15698348452802053572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15646653.post-1149632430304095262006-06-06T23:20:00.000+01:002006-06-06T23:20:00.000+01:00Thanks for all your lovely compliments and comment...Thanks for all your lovely compliments and comments.<BR/><BR/>I don't know where you live greenmantle but I do hope the lottery comes up for you so you can get your place in the country.<BR/><BR/>I have given up even wishing it comes up for me - well of dear beloved as I don't do it!<BR/><BR/>So I'll just keep on growing things on my ramshackle allotment, and live happily ever after he he<BR/><BR/>Sandie - good news on the house front - phew that is a relief - I was getting cramp keeping my fingers crossed for you<BR/><BR/>Haven't a clue what the little tree is. It is an English one - as it lives outside on my garden - which I thought was the best and most natural place for it, and it loses its leaves all winter.<BR/><BR/>If anyone knows - do tell!<BR/><BR/>The weekend was OK thanks. Nothing to write home about. Still full of stupid shingles - but I am trying an experiment to stop taking all the tablets and see if it makes any difference. Six weeks now since I got it! So far I feel worse LOL, but I am determined to kick it into touch. Mind over matter?<BR/><BR/>Off to bed to sleep hopefully!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17243672302584272760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15646653.post-1149631573240893742006-06-06T23:06:00.000+01:002006-06-06T23:06:00.000+01:00Hats off to you Al....your plot is looking great!....Hats off to you Al....your plot is looking great!.. Very impressed with the onions and the spuds, as I have just spent all weekend (well it seems like it anyway) getting mine to a similar state of tidiness, so I know how hard it is to be hand weeding on your knees. <BR/><BR/>I'm a bumpkin at heart too, having been raised on a farm. Now I hate absolutely hate living in town, but around here you need a big lottery win to be able to afford anything in the villages where I grew up.Greenmantlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869745942011646851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15646653.post-1149606819348976112006-06-06T16:13:00.000+01:002006-06-06T16:13:00.000+01:00Hi Al,Glad to have you back!Did you have a relaxin...Hi Al,<BR/>Glad to have you back!Did you have a relaxing,enjoyable time? I hope so, you deserved it!<BR/>Lottie is looking good, the spuds and onions especially so. I wonder how my onions and garlic are doing on my old lottie...aaahhh.<BR/><BR/>Bonsai! (bless you!)what is the bonsai? cotoneaster? escallonia? can't make it out from the photos.<BR/><BR/>I'm going to add some more to my blog in a little while, that is, if it isn't playing up!<BR/><BR/>Oh, dare I mention that I've accepted (preliminary) an offer on the house? Almost the full asking price. And... guess what swayed them? the gardens! (even though they are not in the best of condition. So fingers crossed and hope I can find somewhere, as I don't fancy renting.Sandies' Patchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11022362234675324965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15646653.post-1149604242887823702006-06-06T15:30:00.000+01:002006-06-06T15:30:00.000+01:00Well - you might think that with all the food I gr...Well - you might think that with all the food I grow and cook that I am built like a tank - whereas I am a UK size 10.<BR/><BR/>I grew far more potatoes last year and family and neighbours had some - and although we stored a lot over winter, we did in fact run out, so have had to buy some for the past few months - and they do not taste anywhere near as nice as the ones we grow.<BR/><BR/>Onions - I store over winter and I use lots in all my recipes too. Our family visits uses up quite a few too, and all the sauces etc that I make and freeze or make and bottle uses up a lot. And I make my own sausages and burgers too!<BR/><BR/>Beans - well we do eat lots of runner beans and french beans and haricot and barlotti beans - again in all sorts of recipes and they get frozen and will also get dried too this year - and one again family benefit from them too.<BR/><BR/>I also donate to grandchildren's school fetes, village fetes, table sales, charity fundraisers too.<BR/><BR/>Just wait until you see what I am planting out later - too hot at the moment.<BR/><BR/>By 'eck tis a lot! (Country bumpkin English very!) LOLAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17243672302584272760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15646653.post-1149603643425102412006-06-06T15:20:00.000+01:002006-06-06T15:20:00.000+01:00ok, i know how much produce comes from my smallish...ok, i know how much produce comes from my smallish garden...and i cant eat it all, we bring loads into our workplace and give away (will be doing that with 17 chickens worth of eggs too no doubt) but lottie, what the heck(very american...that) do you do with all those onions, potatoes and beans??? i mean even with freezing, ect. just how much does one couple EAT?!? ;o)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com