Sunday, January 26, 2020
Eating Seasonally | What Can Be Harvested In January (2020)
on the subject of forks.. with my ''new garden'' I received and expensive spade and fork set from my employers, the fork broke very quickly, the shop replaced it.. it broke again.. the shop replaced it... it broke again.. at that point I told them not to replace it to refund the money.. which was quite a lot.. and I bought the shops own cheap brand for £5 (Homebase). 15years or so later I am still using the Homebase one, and thats a shop thats gone out of business now.
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P.S. Your blog keeps reading as insecure for me and then sometimes not. May be it does have to do with the videos... (Not that you have to worry about it -- I'm just trying to figure it out...)
glad snail mail can cross the world and cause some happiness. always a happy day for me. xx watched the video you mentioned and I wouldn't ever be that extreme or try to be. I am glad I can get to a local supermarket and get food if I need to. xx
i think i may have figured some of it out today... when i follow the link from my blog it is insecure, and when i do google search bar sometimes not.
again got to go -- being called away.
i'll add another comment to follow up on this all later!
OK -- back! Claire, am happy if snail mail makes you happy too -- it does me. Though also feeling ... well, never mind that! And please forgive the awkward way I write things -- as in below...
Question -- or a challenge? What was I able to harvest this time of year unprotected when the snow drops come on? (I didn't watch the video -- may be later? But thanks for it.)
Actually, could have been harvesting something all year round before this, but my mind hasn't been in the right place, nor have I been out looking... I've been shut down and preoccupied by other matters than garden... And have been thinking of throwing in the towel and giving up on everything all together. I too am presently relying on a lot of convenient supermarket food -- and loving it -- though I don't tend to buy a lot of veg and not feeling particularly healthy...
My list of harvestables in late January/early February (keep in mind these are small amounts each time of each and baby leaves at that; the rain and cold does tend to rot & sky too dark for much photosynthesis...):
beet greens, chard, collards, garlic greens, parsley, claytonia, land cress -- and could have had broccolli leaves and other had been willing... and there is other out there in minute amounts -- like lemon balm, mint... oregano under cover... and stuff I grow inside the house (that too minoooote!)
My "trick" this year was to grow seeds &/or transplants in rotting compost in the bottom of black plastic pots topped by dirt... People over the years/more than a decade have given me so many of their cast off black plastic pots & other nursery plant pots that they will be a goldmine if I don't dispose of them first (which is a temptation every winter when I am doomed to feel overcluttered by uck in the landscape. I sometimes also use juice bottle cloches on top to help protect plants. Or plant directly into the ground.
So I think perhaps you could use these tricks there with similar results too; possibly better, knowing you. Snowdrops are a sign.
Whew! (so wordy, sorry!)
I'll try to revert back to snail mail now.
Hope life is going good on that side.
your comments here always very welcome too. xx
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