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- October 31st, 2008
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Daftest Vegetable 2008
It’s Halloween, an appropriate day to nominate the Smelly Smallholding’s Daftest Vegetable of the Year 2008. This is a pumpkin which decided to grow inside a pallet! Luckily the others w…
- October 27th, 2008
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Festive felt decorations
It’s almost that time of year again, time to start thinking about interesting and eco-friendly ways to decorate the house. I’ve started collecting cones and various objects from nature tha…
- October 22nd, 2008
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Pickled cabbage
I was inspired by Stonehead’s latest batch of chow-chow making; but as I don’t have any green tomatoes left I decided to develop my own version of a cabbage-based pickle. I have also grown…
- October 10th, 2008
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… and then as if by magic!
I promised a picture of the new fireplace, and here it is! Obviously it’s not quite finished yet (what project here ever is?!) but we’ve restored the old stone pillars, plonked a gorgeous…
- October 1st, 2008
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Getting pickled
Although we’ve been pretty busy the past few weeks, I’ve managed to get quite a bit done on the preserving front and have turned out a good 60 jars of assorted chutneys and jam. I’m…
- September 28th, 2008
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Going, going, gone
One of the few things I hated about our new house (I still call it new although we’ve been here two and a half years!) was the fireplace. Our house is a 19th century peasant hovel built from loc…
- September 24th, 2008
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The compost toilet revisited
You’ll remember the saga of the blocked septic tank (fosse septique) and our subsequent removal of our normal flushing toilet for a compost (or sawdust) toilet. Well, we’ve just had our bi…
- September 10th, 2008
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Tomato Review
This year I grew 3 different heritage tomatoes (all from Real Seeds), Baby Yellow Pear, Purple Ukraine and Urbikany. Least successful was the Baby Yellow Pear. This is the 3rd year I’ve tried i…
- September 5th, 2008
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Easy potato growing
This year I planted a few rows of potatoes on a rough old patch of ground next to the main veg patch. It had previously been covered with a bit of straw, but I had never dug it over. As I was in a rus…
- September 2nd, 2008
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Baby shed
The second half of the summer holiday was really busy; guests, in-laws, trips to the beach, more guests, more trips… so I haven’t had a second to write any posts; but today the kids went b…
