Visiting the Castlefield Viaduct Garden
I finally got along to the Castlefield Viaduct park in the sky, and got a little footage.
I finally got along to the Castlefield Viaduct park in the sky, and got a little footage.
I’m not organised enough for gardening. My brief allotment effort was a disaster. But last year I managed a tiny crop of tomatoes and a few cucumbers from my back yard garden. Hopefully this year I can improve on that.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/tomatoes-cucumbers-herefordshire-aim-b2294776.html
Last week, I was lucky enough to get a look around Todmorden, to see how the Incredible Edible group in the town has found ways to bring food and colour to its public spaces. Thanks to my action cam and a selfie stick, I was able to get a view of the project from the point of view of some of the insects it helps promote.
Haven’t a clue who they are, but I like their sign.
Update They’re guerrilla gardeners, it seems.
Seed bombs!!!!
We shall release them tomorrow.
Not strictly Tib Street, but in the shadow of Affleck’s nonetheless. Someone has made good use of one of the big planters which has lost its tree. As well as the large tomato plant there are also some lettuce, parsley and mint. Very pretty and I hope they get a good harvest out of it.
Last year I had a little garden just outside the rear door of my flat. It gave me a few peas and some tomatoes.
This year I’m trying again, but it’s moved across the yard so it can get more sun. So far there are just two tomato plants there, but as you can see, there are spaces set aside for whatever else I choose to plant.
I found this on the way back from the dentist on Monday, after heading off down one of those alleys you keep going past and wondering where it heads. It’s around the back of some houses, next to garages which can’t possibly be for cars because the only access is via alleys far too narrow for most vehicles.
There used to be a sign beside the gate which would no doubt have enlightened me as to who ran the little green oasis, but it’s been pulled down, so it remains a mystery. Maybe I should go back some evening when people may be around and enquire.
Harry and Penny have unearthed these fruit. Can anyone tell us what they are?
I’ve been wondering about this for a while-
My sister always gets me good presents. For my birthday pie bought me a mini wormery, which arrived this morning. I was feeling bad about the amount of perfectly good compostable material I was throwing out. Now I can use it to make liquid super compost.
The Armadillo started life as one of the thousands of trailer homes purchased to house families displaced by HUrricane KAtrina and other natural disasters. Now it’s a mobile composting and permaculture centre, with water catchment and a vertical garden.
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A book from 1918 on home growing and storing vegetables to help the war economy. Another useful book for Sounds of Soldiers research.
Smaller breeds of cattle are the next big thing, allowing people to keep a few cows if their back garden is big enough. The Times writes about Dexters, miniature “cottagers’ Cows” from Ireland, which are about the size of an Alsation and produce up to 16 pints of milk a day.
In truth the garden is probably too small, even for a mini moo, and the fences to flimsy. But the lawn’s not flat enough to run a mower over it effectively and we have to cut the gras somehow.
I probably shouldn’t be let loose with this so soon after seeing the new Rambo film.
The Triffid has finally arrived. We’re going to train it to eat magpies and any squirrels that get too close.
Just the one tomato has ripened so far.
1 3/4 pounds of green tomatoes, and there are still some on the vine.
I recently got a new pair of army boots. The last pair lasted me five years, and I expect the ame from these. However, I couldn’t just throw the old ones out, that seemed like a waste. I had to find a new use for them.
Turning them into plant pots was an obvious move.