The tuber was bought a good few moons ago from Shannon’s and some years lifted out of the ground for winter and some years just left in. It was taken out last autumn and put in a different location but the move doesn’t seem to have done it any harm!
A big thanks to all at Thompson & Morgan’s gardening blog for including Weeds in its post called Nine notable seed bloggers (here). Ta for the kind words! All the other blogs featured in the piece all are well worth looking at especially Modern Veg Plot and The Sunday Gardener. The Thompson & Morgan blog is worth exploring too with all sorts of features and useful gardening related information. Make a start here and take it from there. #adahliastateofmind
To keep sane at work we listened to Earl Gateshead’s excellent Big Youth mix on rotation today. It brought back memories of seeing one of our favourite Reggae artists earlier this year in a pub in Lewisham. A “must listen to” mix! Shouts to Earl Gateshead for the great mix! #bigyouthfox&firkin #bigyouthlewisham
It’s been a bit manic at Weeds HQ over the summer so gardening has been a bit lower down on the priority list but that’s not to say things are not growing out in the garden. The cactus type Dahlias (above) we got at Shannon’s a few years ago are doing well. We here advocate the “digging them up after the frost and storing over winter under the stairs” method and it works a treat. None of that “leave them in the ground and see how they survive” business here! Dahlia growing tips here, James Wong on eating them here and the masses of varieties here. And for good measure here’s one of the very few tunes that has the plants name in the title which was made by our good selves at Weeds when we couldn’t find anything under Dahlia in Discogs. Available on CD baby here!
Also thanks to our friends at Lewisham Gardens for letting us know through a retweet about an offer in Tescos of Kitchen Garden Magazine which has lots of free seeds in the September issue for the bargain price of a fiver! We’re going to be searching those supermarket shelves this week!
Weeds up to me knees 