Kitchen Garden Forum

I do the same with my tomatoes MW the vegetable mouli is brilliant for this job of removing the skin and seeds, cook them and whizz them in the mouli. I haven't bottled them but put them in take-away sized tubs in the freezer. Not quite run out of space this year.

Is anyone elses KG clock running about 13 minutes slow again?

It put me in all of a spin earlier...

My body clock is running around 2 weeks slow , i went down with a bad cold just after newyears day and i still have it , just about managing to get down the plot to feed the chickens who are laying past themselves

Just checked: you are right, OH, 13 minutes late! Actually. this is the first time that I have ever noticed that the time appears on the site. Just shows, how I concentrate on the posts, doesn't it?

Rather icy-dicey underfoot today: lovely sunshine but everything frozen. Not really outside gardening weather, but the greenhouse looks lovely with flowering polyanthus, violas, hyacinths and daffodils. Iris danfordiae are just showing colour, too. In the garden, the first snowdrops and winter aconites are out and on the Bailey in Skipton, there is a big patch of flowering daffodils!

The great spotted woodpecker has started drumming! Spring must be on its way.

I hadn't noticed the KG time error but am confused enough anyway as my pc clock is a little errant at present....it stops at the time of switch off and once put right it is running fast..new battery just ordered...I hope that is the problem.?

Clive.

I think my body clock is running slightly more than 13 minutes slow at the moment... I want the spring!!!

Well, there is about 9 inches of snow here today and it has just started again.

I managed to lift some lovely carrots and parsnips and a few leeks and came in with "hot aches" from delving about in the snow to find them. They keep much better in the ground than lifted and stored don't you think?

We have been very lucky and missed the snow so far....But we did have rain in the night, followed by it freezing this morning, and this has left everywhere like a skating rink....i all but done the splits, not a pleasant sight....

Thought we'd told you to lay off the sauce until the sun was over the yard-arm OH!

Hope you didn't pull any muscles.

Arrr the lovely dark rum.....yum, yum.....

All the rippling musles are fine, thank you Motherwoman, it was more a case of flailing arms and legs...

Nothing like a good flailing early in the morning.

Conversation is going downhill again... what fun!!

On a more behaved note, it was still pretty dark when i went to wind the Church Clock this morning but, the Blackbirds were singing the most pleasant notes...... everyone else still seemed to be tucked up in bed.

Like minds OH, I walked the dogs when it was just light and the bird song had a spring like quality to it. Touch of frost on the ground but a glimmer of spring in the air.

MW

I have manged to restore my own pc clock to order once more...new battery...said to have a 10 year life..and in fact that tallied exactly to the date stamp under lid of pc.

Today it was go-able enough on the ground to sort the patch of dahlia ground right outside the back door at home here...it had started to look very scruffy. I then pruned the shrubs beyond this area. I hadn't got the dahlias lifted, suspect they may become slug food...but each one is now covered with a small heap of our lovely fluffy compost fresh from the heap...but we'll have to see how they come through the cold on the forecast....

Then I carefully weeded some bitter cress out of the aconites...not an area that I have worked on before, very much Mums domain, but something she can't now get down to do.

Trip in to work to check greenhouse, feed Craig and KitteeCat and deliver the seed tateys...so we can now get back in the front room. Onion sets to deliver next.

On the way home we came back via the stables...3 more bags of doings to put back what I had removed above.

Clive.