Despite spending most of the morning in the kitchen (and over-cooking the turkey - cry), we all had a great day and shared lots of lovely presents. I'd already had a blackcurrant bush delivered (Titania from Ken Muir), which is still being kept alive in the kitchen with regular 'baths' in the sink! The 'library' was increased with a number of fruit books:
Nigel Slater's Tender: Volume II, A cook's guide to the fruit garden
'The Apple Book
' by Rosie Sanders RHS 'Growing Fruit (Royal Horticultural Society's Encyclopaedia of Practical Gardening)
' by Harry Baker (retired Fruit Officer at RHS Wisley)
'How to Grow Orchard Fruit
' by Richard Bird and Kate WhitemanYou may have noticed a bit of a theme! Following on that I also received a 'Aluminium 3in1 Apple Peeler Corer Slicer Suction Stand
- which is amazingly addictive!Is that a thaw I see?
That white stuff seems to be disappearing and we've finally turned off the heating (for at least some of the day), so I'm hoping the soil will also have defrosted enough to get the blackcurrant in the ground and salvage the brassicas under the collapsed netting. Before the next lot of snow strikes...
4 comments:
Our snow is gone but still plenty of lumps of ice.
I'm a sucker for paperback novels - I used to buy gardening books and recipe books but I'm afraid I now use the Internet
And strangely, despite the vast quantities of books we have between us, we still use the internet for this as well!
Great selection of books, you'll be the fruit growing guru next year!
Definitely a fruity theme there! Is this a cunning plan to make your 2nd plot an orchard?
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