BBC Dig In seeds arrived…

Yes, the long awaited seeds from the BBC arrived this week. Fantastic.

They are a great freebie. And I mean FREE. All you had to do was submit your postage and email address and your seeds were promised to be delievered within the month.

5 packets were delivered, tomato, squash, lettuce, beetroot and carrot. Some will be saved for next year but I think the squash and the beetroot are going to go in this week.

I believe they have run out but the offer can be found here. I’m not sure whether they will be running it again, only I know that they should.

Brilliant!

River cottage repeats

One of my most favourite tv programmes ever has to be river cottage where hugh fearnley relocates to the west country in search of a better quality of life. Like many others I’m sure, I would love to be in a position to do this.

My life is, at the moment, semi-rural: I live in a large village and am very lucky to have a large back garden. One day though, I would love to own my very own smallholding – much like the original river cottage – or, if I’m very lucky, one more like river cottage hq (the big 40 acre farm as featured in 2008 river cottage spring and autmn).

Anyway, more to the point, I’ve been watching river cottage spring repeats on 4od this morning. Hugh was making broad beans on toast and harvesting new potatoes and raddish (all grown in that polytunnel for early cropping).

I’m looking forward to re-creating this recipe for myself in about a months time with my container grown broad beans! Until then I’ve got exam after exam and I could really do with beginning to revise and prepare.

iPod update.

Another iPod update

Since the last post; courgettes have gone in. I need more room for potatoes and was in the middle of clearing an area of grass and weeds when I remembered it was the same part I had spilt some diesel last year (I could still smell it in the soil). Obviously it’s unsuitable to grow anything there and probably will be for another few years – annoying because it’s a good, sunny and otherwise fertile spot.

First ipod update

Bit of an experiment really. Thought I would have a go at making a post from my trusty iPod. Apologies for the odd mispelt words that are bound to occur.

Anyway, today weather has maintained is recent miserableness. It’s beginning to resemble summer actually (the last two).

Tomorrow I could do with ensuring I’m in for the delivery of the debris netting – doubt I will be though.

I may be cutting down part of a tree tomorrow as I’m in need of the wood. More to follow…