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Inside my dome jungle
Ok, so first off, when you see my wayward, out-of-control cucumber plants don’t groan. Please believe I have tried. I have spent countless hours I will never get back hunting suckers like a maniac, but yet they grow bushy and refuse to train up the string.
I stand defeated.
Secondly please accept my apologies for continually mentioning the weather, but even for Ireland, it's been horrendous. Thank goodness for my dome and greenhouse.
Cucumber crystal apple
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Cucumber Marketmore
But on the upside, I have cucumbers galore in five varieties, including Mini White which you must admit are very cute.
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We drink cucumber juice daily and freeze some too for a taste of summer during those dark winter days.
Despite continuous strong winds and heavy rain, my pea plants are providing an abundance. These too I freeze for a supply throughout the year.
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I've just started harvesting one bed of carrots and have the next lot sown, succession planting for a continuous supply.
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Though the crazy weather has done for some of my 200-plus onions which have bolted, I’m still hoping to have enough to eat and store, if we get any sunshine to dry the little fellas out that is.
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Considering the lack of sunshine, it’s a wonderful year for berries and we’ve had pots of strawberries, Tayberries and Gooseberries, green and red. Our figs are ripe, though I have no idea what to do with them, and we have green and black grapes almost ready to devour.
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And look at that beautiful Basil. Who doesn’t love it? Delicious for Basil pesto. It's like The Ritz round my house with scrambled eggs and basil pesto for breakfast!
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There’s celery, of course, tomatoes and spinach, not to mention garlic, just harvested and hanging to dry.
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I’m growing Petite Gris de Renne and Minnesota Midget melons again this year as they were such a hit with my chickens.
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The 'no dig' method for growing potatoes was a great success last year and ideal for bockety old gardeners like myself. Spread some compost, stick your potato on top, cover with straw and finito la festa.
I have about 30 planted...well I am Irish.
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My back is broken and my fingers are worn to stumps but I think it’s worth it. You are what you eat after all, plus I’m not partial to a serving of pesticide with every meal.
Besides, I’ve heard rumblings from the farming community about food shortages coming soon to a place near you, so I’m taking no chances.
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Posted in response to The Garden Hive's Monthly Garden Journal Challenge to detail what's happening in your garden, from successes to failures
That's a fine garden you have there, figs and all. Very impressive. I agree it is worth it, I have fine working hands as well, damn proud of them xxx
Sure don't I know you have fine working hands. Didn't you make all those colourful cunts:)
I'm pretty new to the food growing game but I think I may have found my calling.
Awww, you definitely have got a 💚 green thumb, and those grapes are doing well, have you tried eating the grape leaves? They are super nutritious. That cucumber is pale and knobly, hehe. I don't do well planting cucumbers, slugs love them and always find the way to chomp them up. Definitely better planting them yourself organically. Well done. 😊💚
No, I haven't tried eating the grape leaves. I've never heard of such a thing(:)
Well, it is very beneficial.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8534917/
There's a recipe called dolmas, in Mediterranean cuisine. They wrap the flavoured rice in grape leaves.
I eat mine in salad, which gives lovely sourness. And hey, I am currently gardening after seeing your beautiful garden. Haha! X
Grape leaves for dinner it is! You'll be a natural at the old gardening lark. In 6 months you'll be giving me tips!
Haha! 💗
My heavens! The work you put in. I can't tell you how impressed I am, though not surprised. Nothing you achieve surprises me. I think, if something occurs to you and you want it...it gets done.
Congratulations on a spectacular garden, and one giant step toward food self-sufficiency.
That in a nutshell is who I am! Failure is never an option. It's uncanny that you know me without ever knowing me.
Thanks for forever knowing just the right thing to say. Do you have a compendium of correct reactions for every occasion?:)
When I first 'met' you on Hive I related. There are difference...I'm not so practical. Certainly a survivor, but less practical than you are. I manage to get done what needs to be done, but have a way of drifting off into thought :))
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That’s a wonderful garden you’ve got there! I love the dome! Eventually we are going to get our own place and I will have to keep the dome in mind because it is indeed a very good way to grow food in conditions that are not as friendly as one would like. Granted I’m not in Ireland or Northern Europe but still.
There’s a lot of fuckery afoot in governance around the world, I know that we will need our own gardens as much as possible to push back against the insidious nature of it all. Good on you for growing and storing a bunch of your stuff!
It’s been a while since I’ve had a lemon cucumber, those yellow round ones. They taste good! My brother grew them in the garden at my parents house years ago.
Keep up the excellent work!
I'd thoroughly recommend a dome. There's so much space to grow and even in winter, it's always a few degrees warmer than outside. On a sunny winter's day, you can get out your deck chair, unfreeze your cucumber juice and pretend it's summer.
There's fuckery afoot indeed and it's everywhere and on a grand scale. We're very rural here, off-grid with our own power and water and produce most of our food besides flour and raw milk from neighbouring farmers. Barring some extreme weather event or a zombie apocalypse, we should be ok:)
I love the Crystal Apple cucumbers but I've never seen them for sale here. Only the generic long green ones appear in shops and markets.
Cheers for the visit.
Beautiful garden! The amount of meticulous care and effort you put into your plants really shows! Everything looks so healthy, and I especially love how beautifully organized those tomatoes are growing vertically, that's so cool! Nice work @deirdyweirdy!
Actually, it's all a jungle with no organisation at all. I just left all of the chaos out of the photos:)
Cheers for the visit.
Multiple varieties of everything under the not-sun! How ever do you do this! It's marvelous. I wonder what it's like when the weather is fine!
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So do I!:)
Everything looks beautiful, good job!
Thank you kindly. When I see the amount of work I've done, I can't quite believe it. I think there must have been a crew of elves working overnight, digging and planting while I slept:)
Some serious abundance. If it wasn't for that horrendous weather ( not unlike is happening in The Netherlands, it seems ), I would love to visit you, some day and have a taste of it all ✨💚
Vincent, sweetie, if you come to visit I'll buy one of these for you and you won't feel the horrendous weather at all:)
You want me to become 'the boy in the bubble', as in The Paul Simon song or the tho movies with a similar title?
You know I like my freedom,right? ;<)
But Vincent, with this you can walk on water...my boat is punctured, it went careening down a hill in some recent 85 kmph winds.
Holy Moses!
My condolences on losing your rubber boat ❤️
Ooh, I love your gardening dome! We just got a little greenhouse last year, and it was amazing having it at least to get our seedlings started this year. Being just outside of Atlanta, Georgia in the southern US--it is now a sauna for the remainder of the summer.
Looks like you have some great abundance! The weather is always a challenging factor, and makes me so much more appreciative of my local farmers. Mother Nature does not always cooperate! But it makes it that much more special when you do enjoy those homegrown foods, even with an aching back. ;)
Ooh, I love it too! It was the best gardening decision I ever made, ideal for a sunless summer. We could do with a piece of that sauna you have there. Yes indeed, nothing tastes quite like homegrown even though my friends love to tell me "I can get that in Lidl for a euro!"
How big is the dome? It looks fabulous.
I've only recently discovered that I like cucumbers. I grew up with the obligatory two or three wafer thin slices on a salad but never really appreciated them until a year or so ago.
I wasn't keen on cucumber until I grew my own. They taste quite different when they're not days old.
The dome is 30 sq metres and it's always warm. Sometimes I feel like moving in there!
never heard about Cucumber crystal apple. It'll be interesting to taste it! By the way also had thoughts to plant white cucumbers but don't have enough place in my greenhouse for it....
They do take up a lot of space alright, especially, if, like me, you can't keep the little blighters under control. To tell the truth, all cucumbers taste the same to me but I'm trying to appear sophisticated with my 5 varieties:)
In my case I decided to plant just a 4 varieties due that reason that I have not so much free space in my garden. Most of them were proven. But honestly for me every spring it;s big challenge not to buy more varieties of different plants and herbs))))....
I know what you mean. Way more seeds than space to plant them!
Oh and I forgot to say:
Please don't 'ear' ze bugs
or you will get earwigs
Ever seen an ear wear a wig? ;<)
Oh good gawd, I loathe and detest errors and check everything 20 times. Nice catch! Henceforth I shall forward all of my posts to you for editing:)
Haha! Please don't.
I 'work hard' to do less ( as noted in today's post ).
But I fear I can't help being a bit of a grammar nazi, every now and then.
I try not to do it all the time and even to not correct my own typos, if I can help it,
to go against my perfectionism. As the latter has often not served me and reminds me of my upbringing/perfectionist family.
Some of my favourite people are grammar nazis. I always strive for perfection which I consider a boon and not a bane.
I will take that first sentence as a compliment ;<)
I don't
but that might also be the perfectionist inside of me talking, prone to underestimating/underselling myself ;<)
You should treat everything as a compliment, unless the evidence to the contrary is overwhelming!
In that case I will take ( my current ) life as a compliment :<)
Your plants look good
Is cucumber juice very good for the body?
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