Freezing fog this morning.
I cycled to my kayak club to help out on a half term session. The nearer I got to the Navigation the more frosty the twigs, plants and grass. I saw a cyclist with a curly beard - and the beard had frost on it. He looked like one of those explorers making for the north pole!
I was expecting to help with kayaking but we took the boys on a bike ride instead, doing the Limehouse Loop. At first I wished I'd remembered my fleece earband, but half way to Limehouse it was clear sky and sunny.
Again appreciated the new bridge over the Navigation allowing us to go under the Bow Road roundabout rather than risk our lives crossing it!
We were a little behind by the time we got to the Limehouse basin, but we took 5 minutes to go and actually look at the Thames before coming back along the Regents Canal beside the Mile End linear park. No sign of the turtles that I often see along there.
Just over 2 miles to go before we were back at base when Ahmed had a chain disaster on his bike. So we put him on the bike Anna was using, sent all the boys off with Eilish while Anna and I walked pushing our bikes. It could have happened at Limehouse with a 6 mile walk, it could have been a cold or damp day instead of lovely sunshine, and Anna and I might have had commitments in the afternoon we couldn't be late for. But luckily it was none of those things, and so didn't spoil a good morning.
We think it was a 12 mile ride.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Vegan vegetable grower on Gardeners World
I haven't watched Gardeners World for years, but Friday night a friend rang me to say that there was a vegan vegetable grower featured. So yesterday I watched it on i-player.
The section on the vegan's vegetable growing was very interesting. Monty Don was definitely impressed!
He does use manure (which makes him a vegan by diet rather than a someone who practises vegan gardening. However, the manure was only mentioned in passing. Instead was featured how he used old path mulch (I didn't take it what it was) which is sieved 3 times and each sieving used for a different purpose. and how he fertilised his tomatoes EVERY day.
He uses nettles, comfrey and potash. I don't have nettles except the occasional small plant. I used to do liquid comfrey fertiliser but then the comfrey stated getting rust so have to pick the leaves when they are small, so only small quantities now. I do have plenty of potash from the wood burning stove. Each week over the winter I put it on to the bed that is going to have tomatoes next season. This winter I am going to put it into a thick plastic bag and then make liquid potash fertiliser when the tomatoes start fruiting. I will also get some comfrey pellets from the organic gardening catalogue.
The organic gardening catalogue has already arrived; it is usually worryingly late! I have had my first go through, ticking what I would like. I will now have to go through again, reducing the order to what I have space for and can afford.
Nice bike ride this morning, to Victoria Park in Hackney along the towpaths. First time in 2 months because the towpath was blocked off during the Olympics. However successful the Olympics were, and I know lots of people really enjoyed them, I don't think they justified the cost or the amount of public space taken.
The section on the vegan's vegetable growing was very interesting. Monty Don was definitely impressed!
He does use manure (which makes him a vegan by diet rather than a someone who practises vegan gardening. However, the manure was only mentioned in passing. Instead was featured how he used old path mulch (I didn't take it what it was) which is sieved 3 times and each sieving used for a different purpose. and how he fertilised his tomatoes EVERY day.
He uses nettles, comfrey and potash. I don't have nettles except the occasional small plant. I used to do liquid comfrey fertiliser but then the comfrey stated getting rust so have to pick the leaves when they are small, so only small quantities now. I do have plenty of potash from the wood burning stove. Each week over the winter I put it on to the bed that is going to have tomatoes next season. This winter I am going to put it into a thick plastic bag and then make liquid potash fertiliser when the tomatoes start fruiting. I will also get some comfrey pellets from the organic gardening catalogue.
The organic gardening catalogue has already arrived; it is usually worryingly late! I have had my first go through, ticking what I would like. I will now have to go through again, reducing the order to what I have space for and can afford.
Nice bike ride this morning, to Victoria Park in Hackney along the towpaths. First time in 2 months because the towpath was blocked off during the Olympics. However successful the Olympics were, and I know lots of people really enjoyed them, I don't think they justified the cost or the amount of public space taken.
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