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Alison Mundie

  • Date Joined: 15 Jan 2007

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  • Mucking and Weaving

    Alison Mundie on 20 Mar 2009 at 03:17 PM

    Very busy times in the garden now and the warm and dry weather has meant great progress in the new kitchen garden. Most of the soil preparation is complete, to the relief of all the gardeners involved (some were beginning to get overload - see picture), with the mushroom compost, manure, composted bark... Read More...

  • Plenty of Beds but no rest ...

    Alison Mundie on 24 Feb 2009 at 12:52 PM

    The snow has gone at last, thank goodness, so work continues apace on the raised bed building in the new productive area. Once beds are drilled and screwed together, the fun bit of lining them up on the ground to fit the design begins - not always as straightforward as it sounds, especially on a site... Read More...

  • Extreme Gardening

    Alison Mundie on 05 Feb 2009 at 03:14 PM

    Despite the current ‘challenging' weather, work is progressing apace in the new productive area, and we have discovered one of the muddiest garden tasks ever. Yes, lugging turf pieces to build the stacks for 2 days on the trot was truly dirty and very hard work. Add the slippery thawing frost on... Read More...

  • Final Feast

    Alison Mundie on 05 Nov 2008 at 04:13 PM

    The great kitchen garden move means that all the remaining veg needs to be harvested or replanted/moved – that’s quite a lot. There are some gorgeous leeks, kales, leafbeets, and parsnips, all of which would normally crop over the winter. Jerusalem artichokes usually would stay in the ground and be harvested... Read More...

  • Veg on the Move!

    Alison Mundie on 05 Nov 2008 at 02:57 PM

    Visitors to Harlow Carr will notice lots of activity in the kitchen garden over the coming weeks – veg growing is moving to a temporary site elsewhere in the garden, so that work can start on our new Learning Centre. Gardeners are currently busy lifting perennial veg plants, taking cuttings, etc, and... Read More...

  • Flaming June

    Alison Mundie on 27 Jun 2008 at 04:18 PM

    Spent the early part of the week repairing damage from Sunday's gales and heavy rain - propping up the broad beans, tying escaping peas back in, staking battered cut flowers. Last week's blog about plant supports turned out to be uncannily appropriate... We have been regularly harvesting lettuce... Read More...

  • Visible Means of Support ...

    Alison Mundie on 20 Jun 2008 at 04:33 PM

    Planting out French beans on the 3x3 plot today in a fairly strong wind on our open site brought home forcibly the need for good, strong supporting frames for climbing veg to grow over. The beans - a type of borlotti bean to supply beautiful red-splashed pods for eating as well as beans for drying -... Read More...

  • Rhubarb Triangle

    Alison Mundie on 23 May 2008 at 10:45 AM

    One of the things Yorkshire is famed for is rhubarb growing, and the 'Rhubarb Triangle' - an area between Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield - has recently been recreated in miniature at Harlow Carr. English rhubarb production has been centred on West Yorkshire since the late 19 th century and the... Read More...