Hello
After my mail of gloom and doom last week things have definitely improved and most of my plants have decided to live after all! The courgettes and runner beans have perked up, and we will soon be able to offer sugar snap peas, the broad beans are covered in flowers, and lettuces, salads and herbs are all looking good.
The flea beetle are still partying on the brassicas, so we have had to cover all the new stuff we have planted in horticultural fleece, held down by a wide variety of plastic carrier bags filled with soil - so at the moment our field looks like a shrine to supermarket shopping! We've started to update the blog on the website more frequently, check it out for our own version of installation art - Bags in the Brecon Beacons - and also to see what I get up to after dark!
We are also pleased to say that, along with Castle Street Restaurant and Bridge Cafe who we supply, one of our loyal and longstanding customers has nominated us for UKTV Food 'Local Hero 2007' - you can have a look at uktvfood.co.uk (thanks, Adrienne).
This week, as changes to our normal list we have available; lettuce, salad bags, basil, coriander, parsley and spring onions (all either mine or Alan's) plus welsh broad beans at 2.25 per kg; new pembroke pots (absolutely delicious) at 1.80 per kg and mini cucs from wales at 75p each. I also have a limited amount of my own strawberries (they are limited because we can't stop eating them - sorry, there has to be some perks to this job) at 1.70 for 250g. The greens are limited this week to pointy green cabbages, or red or white cabbages, and we also have necterines (Spain) at 2.50 for half a kilo.
Hope this makes you feel peckish!
Best wishes
Theresa
After my mail of gloom and doom last week things have definitely improved and most of my plants have decided to live after all! The courgettes and runner beans have perked up, and we will soon be able to offer sugar snap peas, the broad beans are covered in flowers, and lettuces, salads and herbs are all looking good.
The flea beetle are still partying on the brassicas, so we have had to cover all the new stuff we have planted in horticultural fleece, held down by a wide variety of plastic carrier bags filled with soil - so at the moment our field looks like a shrine to supermarket shopping! We've started to update the blog on the website more frequently, check it out for our own version of installation art - Bags in the Brecon Beacons - and also to see what I get up to after dark!
We are also pleased to say that, along with Castle Street Restaurant and Bridge Cafe who we supply, one of our loyal and longstanding customers has nominated us for UKTV Food 'Local Hero 2007' - you can have a look at uktvfood.co.uk (thanks, Adrienne).
This week, as changes to our normal list we have available; lettuce, salad bags, basil, coriander, parsley and spring onions (all either mine or Alan's) plus welsh broad beans at 2.25 per kg; new pembroke pots (absolutely delicious) at 1.80 per kg and mini cucs from wales at 75p each. I also have a limited amount of my own strawberries (they are limited because we can't stop eating them - sorry, there has to be some perks to this job) at 1.70 for 250g. The greens are limited this week to pointy green cabbages, or red or white cabbages, and we also have necterines (Spain) at 2.50 for half a kilo.
Hope this makes you feel peckish!
Best wishes
Theresa
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