Monday 3 January 2011

First Harvest - Happy New Year

I've posted a couple of harvests to Daphne's "Harvest Monday"  in the past year -see http://daphnesdandelions.blogspot.com/2011/01/harvest-monday-3-janauary-2011.html but I have to own up that they were Sunday harvests really. Thanks to the bank holiday this one is a genuine Monday Harvest(!):


Trying to make my New Year's resolutions I kept on coming up with building jobs, necessary to get ahead with the growing or protecting of fruit and veg. Oh well better get on with one of them:  using the bricks I'd gathered to make raised beds at home to bring on seedling for the plot. Off to get the tools of the trade. How's that for a trendy trug?


I've no experience of bricklaying or building generally, but having so many bricks I'm using them for the foundations as well as the walls themselves. Here's an idea of progress today. I'm doing 4 of these in a square with a cross shaped path running between them in what was an infertile rose bed before we moved in. It could take a few weeks but I hope to have everything ready before spring.!(?) 

16 comments:

  1. A good harvest and a good start to your seed bed. Happy New Year!

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  2. I agree. Looks like a great start to me!

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  3. I love the purple cabbage. I didn't grow cabbage this year, but next year will have some and it will be purple.

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  4. So lovely to see soil that's not frozen soil. Great idea for using the bricks!

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  5. Great harvest! Those are three of my favorite cold season veggies youv've got there, and lovelies too boot.

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  6. Happy New Year, Mal!
    I just LOVE your brick bed! I wish I had more bricks, I would definitely build another bed.

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  7. We have a pile of bricks waiting to make paths to divide up a new strawberry patch but everything is still too wet and soggy.

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  8. Hello! I've just found your blog (via Daphne's) Very impressive that you had any sort of harvest after all that Scottish snow. I lived in Edinburgh for 2 years and never saw anything like that!

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  9. Beautiful harvest! Very healthy looking vegetables. Good job!

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  10. Nice CN!

    Brickwork is a matter of patience. I always think "if I just lay four or five bricks well today, who cares how long it all takes", but once you get the hang of it you'll find it suddenly ends. I've met many brickies, and to be honest a few have been so dull I wonder how they remember to breathe. If they can do it...

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  11. That'll be pretty and from this angle it looks pretty good. I thought almost everyone's harvest was a Sunday harvest? Actually mine do often come on Monday but that's because I harvest almost every day that I can!

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  12. Well it's definitely a good start...and makes me feel very lazy :-(

    Your harvest is great...wish I had something to harvest right now...hopefully this time next year though

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  13. Good grief you've had it tough with the weather up there - we usually get away with it down here on the East coast but this year we had it very bad for a while. It was nearly two feet deep in some parts of my garden. Nice lloking veg - I hope to grow a few this year.

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  14. Happy New Year, and it looks a productive one already. Good luck with the bricklaying.

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  15. What great photos - thanks for the inspiration.. I love the Tuscan kale as well.. beautiful and delicious!

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