Comments for North by North

Comment on About by anjafinne

anjafinne — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:54:30 +0000

Do you mean that the supermarket is not interested in your vegetables? They usually aren’t as they have their own wholesale organisations and their demand exceeds a non-commercial scale of products. We have contacts with two smallish private gourmet restaurants and a catering enterprise; they all favour local organic products and our surplus usually satisfies their needs. We are not even offering them potatoes, beetroot, carrots, etc. but specialities that are expensive/difficult to get elsewhere.

Comment on About by Steve Moulson

Steve Moulson — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:36:40 +0000

I wish my family would eat as much fresh veg as your family I know we only live 5 mins from the local supermarket, ive asked them is they anything they want me to grow.No.

Comment on The first frost on the ground by anjafinne

anjafinne — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:16:47 +0000

Oh well, we are a bit north of you, I presume – actually this is pretty late for the first frost (not much of a consolation just now…)

Comment on The first frost on the ground by Steve Moulson

Steve Moulson — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:02:12 +0000

Hi we have not had any frost as of yet but plenty of rain i know it only time when we all get it.

Comment on Cold and colds by Ben Heaton

Ben Heaton — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:09:26 +0000

That was great Anja! Ben

Comment on About by ben

ben — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:50:30 +0000

Sounds a wonderful life – thanks for the window in – Ben

Comment on Harvesting here and there by Ben

Ben — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:57:58 +0000

Whoops, sorry abvout that Anje – looks like we mixed some seeds up there! This year not so much seed packing is being done by hand (our wholesalers are using a machine to do the packing for many varieties) so this kind of hickup will hopefully be avoided – still it’s a beauty!

Ben

Comment on Slightly disastrous by Heli

Heli — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:14:33 +0000

Fritillaria is a Queen, DramaQueen!

Comment on It must be the moon by anjafinne

anjafinne — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:37:28 +0000

Thanks! The puppies (as most of our dogs) are Alaskan huskies – not a breed but a category and in this very much like Brighton Rock snapdragons: you never know what the outcome will look like till you see it. With these puppies the deduction is that though we don’t know the happy father for a certainty there is no doubt about the grandfather (he was white with black dots)…

And speaking of Brighton Rock – do try to get its seeds somewhere! It’s an exciting variety.

Comment on It must be the moon by warwickshire

warwickshire — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:45:18 +0000

Beautiful photos, and aren’t the puppies gorgeous! The weather seems to be upping my success rate too. Think I’ll be looking into getting some snapdragons. Happy growing x