Downton Seedy Sunday
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A little more info: Lucie was taught at an early age by her mother what to glean for free from the countryside and currently works in many of Dorset’s most remote & beautiful locations on conservation & restoration projects, as well as being involved in Foraging. Lucie endeavours to get people out in to the natural environment and reconnect with the land, to feel the physical and emotional health benefits associated with the great outdoors. She aims to teach people the pleasure of foraging and encourages you to seek out ingredients that are freely available and will enhance the dishes you would cook at home. Emma Cooper, who will be running the Harvest VegEvent seed swap has just posted a great item on her blog about seed swapping. I have one more seed swapping event this year – I’m off to the Harvest Veg Event 2010 in the New Forest. I have therefore been collecting seeds from my garden, and processing and packing them ready for the swap (and any ad hoc swapping!). For the first time, I am adding MyFolia codes to my seed packets – which means that gardeners who grab one can let me know where they’ve ended up. MyFolia also encourage what they call Serendipty Drops………………… For the rest of Emma’s post you’ll need to do the link: Emma Cooper’s thoughts on seed swapping Growing more of your own food is the main topic for the Harvest VegEvent and to help in that the seed supplier MoreVeg will be there with a selection of seeds to help you. Here’s a note from Rachel Hello Richard We will be bringing plenty of seeds that are suitable for sowing now (see our sowing in September list MoreVeg SEPTEMBER 2010 Newsletter), including turnips and some of the special offers including the endive, turnip, September sowing and salads an hopefully at least a couple of others. We will have several autumn sowing peas and broad beans with us too. I also hope to bring some of the spencer sweet peas (love growing these among my runner beans) and whatever else we have room for! We look forward to seeing you again, Rachel Martin (MoreVeg)
FREE ENTRY to everyone interested in growing their own vegetables – Seed swap, Light lunches, Wormeries,
Preserves, Posh Cloche, MoreVeg seeds, Kilner, Juicing, garden poultry, Calendula Organics, attractions.
No, Alys isn’t coming to the VegEvent but you will be saving some seeds for the seed swap won’t you?…….here’s how to save Rocket seed. Alys on saving rocket seed You may have salad rocket in full flower now or perhaps those funny inflated seed pods are appearing. In which case, now is the moment to save seeds. Rocket is part of the cabbage family, brassicaceae. I’m not quite sure how rocket got its name, but one could quite believe that it’s due to its speedy nature. It matures very quickly and thus, for a continuous supply, you need to make successive sowings. It is a cool-climate plant and in hot weather it tends to go straight to flowering. The flowers are edible, but don’t eat too many if you want to save seed. It’s never advisable to save seed of the first plant that bolted as this will perpetuate early flowering and thus fewer leaves to eat. You could let nature do the hard work and allow it to self-seed, but you do tend to get it in all the wrong places this way. It’s often better to harvest the seed when the plant is a yellow colour and the seed heads have turned a lovely straw colour; allow the seeds to dry indoors in a well-ventilated space. Rocket has a natural post-harvest dormancy of around two months. This means you’ll have to wait before sowing, but once you get into the cycle you can happily keep yourself in seed for as long as you care to eat rocket. via Alys Fowler: Caraway, plus harvesting rocket seed | Life and style | The Guardian. Calendula Organics hand-make high quality herbal skin care products from ingredients which are grown and made in the New Forest area.  Calendula Organics hand-make high quality herbal skin care products The products are sourced from local producers. A range of their products will be on sale and I have it on good authority that there will be some freebie Calendula seeds saved from their very special selection of plants. Before freezers the Kilner Jar was the favoured method of preserving fruit and some vegetables. Bottling (canning in the US) remains a very efficient method of preserving produce for  Old jars can still be used consumption later, when home grown fresh food gets scarce. Peter will also be showing some of the older types of Kilner jars from his collection. Great news! Emma, is a freelance writer, photographer and podcaster. She is a keen gardener and lives in Oxfordshire with husband Pete and three pet chickens – Princess Layer, Chewbucka and Cluck Skywalker. (RIP Hen Solo)  Emma Cooper Emma will be running the seed swap and selling/signing her book ‘The alternative Kitchen Garden an A-Z’ You can find our more about Emma on her web site: http://coopette.com |
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