The last pumpkins
18 February 2010 at 18:15 (Preserving and storing food, Harvest)
More and more of our stored pumpkins give up the ghost: Fluffy white fungus, black rot spots, you name it. Fortunately we had plenty of pumpkins stored, so we haven’t lacked for anything, pumpkin-wise. To postpone the start of the pumpkinless season, I’m cleaning and freezing the last good pumpkins one by one.
we had plenty
Onion check
2 January 2010 at 15:38 (Preserving and storing food, Harvest)
Today I checked all our onions and removed all the rotten ones. It wasn’t much work, for we don’t have that many onions left, but you need to make time for these small chores. Perhaps I’ll also get to checking the potatoes and remove the offshoots today. The potatoes deteriorate fast when they start to chit.
Big
14 September 2009 at 19:56 (Harvest)
The biggest of the pumpkins, with my sunglasses as reference.
Unfortunately
9 September 2009 at 15:00 (Harvest)
Unfortunately the hazelnuts about which I wrote on September 7 were all empty, even those which didn’t have a hole bored in them. Such a pity…
First harvest from new garden
7 September 2009 at 6:52 (Fruit, Harvest)
To my surprise there are some nuts on the curly stemmed hazelnut in the new garden in Germany. As you can see in the second photo we’re not the only one to enjoy them. In the third picture you can see the entire harvest so far (impressive, innit?) and in the fourth picture you see the new catkins/flowers. Seems very early to me, but I must say I have no experience with hazels.
Grapes
5 September 2009 at 19:44 (Harvest)
My first grape harvest ever, all 198 grams of it! Different taste, kind of perfumed, but not bad at all. Unfortunately I got this from my allotment, the key of which I’ll be giving to the new plot holder next weekend. The fruit corner will still be mine, for the time being, but definitely not for long enough to get a second harvest next year. We’ve moved 100 km away and that’s not a practical distance for having an allotment 