2013 Growing Season

Not a Furtle ?

 

OK...So i got it wrong what's a fettle and a furtle between friends

 

I'm going to have to lie down for a bit

 

The hazelnut bushes are finally near their end in terms of shedding the nuts. Since the nuts were growing high up out of my reach, I could do nothing but wait for them to drop and hope the squirrels did not eat them all. This year I've managed to collect 11.5lb of them.


The strong winds keep on blowing the apples off the tree. So between the showers I went out and picked some of them. The ones in the bowl have been damaged by birds, wasps, slug / snails ...or bruised while fallen off, so they will be eaten first. The others I'm going to wrap them up individually in newspaper and store for later.

 

@HsuH ....Nice one..... guess who's just paid £2.oo for 200grams of Hazelnuts

 

Oh no . Shall I send you some?

 

That's a very kind offer HusH thank you....but no problem i'm going to rob the squirrel

 

My first hazel crop. I planted the bushes to coppice for bean poles, but as I've got enough cheap (25p for bundles of 5) canes from Wilkos to last me at least 10 years I might just coppice every other bush.

 

Still some nice stuff in the garden

 

chillies look very appealing Peorthine,
Jenny

 

Prepare to be bored Jenny In an iron foundry when you clean of the casting flash , you Fettle it. It also means to repair something.

 

Thank you for educating this southerner,
Jenny

 

Quince jelly making this week. This might be our last crop as the tree has spilt into 2 and I've had to support the largest part (the only bit that produces fruit) that's now at 45° to stop it snapping off completely.

 

Can you take cuttings off of Quinces Scrunge?