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		<title>Stoved Salsify</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salsify is essentially a new vegetable to me 1. So I was excited when my colleague Kate brought round some Salsify from her veg box on our last team work day. (She always brings a nice vegetable for us to add to lunch).  I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re always like this but these were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bathosphere.org/emstar/2012/04/09/stoved-salsify/</link>
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		<title>First spring seedlings!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of February I sowed my first seeds direct into the allotment, and covered them with a net tunnel. A month later and they&#8217;ve started to come up!

The thin wispy leaves in the foreground are carrots, middle-right is mixed salad leaves, and the back row in Butterhead lettuce.
This is the first year I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bathosphere.org/emstar/2012/03/26/first-spring-seedlings/</link>
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		<title>September plenty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hedgerows around us are covered in blackberries right now. Here&#8217;s one of the bushes I was picking from on the way to the allotment. 

My beloved chard plants, still going strong.

A few potato plants&#8217; harvest. I should have stuck a foot in this photo for scale, some of them were enormous!

Rhubarb leaves over a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bathosphere.org/emstar/2011/09/01/september-plenty/</link>
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		<title>Midsummer allotment update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the new clearing I planted out sprouting broccoli and some tomato plants which my dad had found growing wild on his allotment.  Oh I also planted some cabbage seedlings my dad had going spare too. 
You can see how big those rhubarb leaves are getting here.  

In the smaller enclosure where my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bathosphere.org/emstar/2011/08/14/midsummer-allotment-update/</link>
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		<title>First summer vegetable pickings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although there is still a lot of work to do (largely because it is my first year), the early/middle summer time is rewarding because we&#8217;re starting to harvest the vegetables I&#8217;ve grown. 
Here&#8217;s my first potato!

Not that it is hard to grow potatoes: I found one plant growing in a bag of stones I&#8217;d cleared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bathosphere.org/emstar/2011/07/13/first-summer-vegetable-pickings/</link>
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		<title>Weeding, clearing and the reason for fencing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is still a LOT of work to do during the summer. Those little brassica seedlings I was growing on my windowsill at home are quickly outgrowing the modules and I need to clear some more ground to put them in.  
The problem isn&#8217;t actually so much the clearing of the ground, but the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bathosphere.org/emstar/2011/07/10/weeding-clearing-and-the-reason-for-fencing/</link>
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		<title>My first spring term at the allotment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to move my blog posts about the allotment from my Moving to the Country blog, to my personal one. I&#8217;ve written a lot about cooking here and it seems appropriate that I blog about my food growing here too. To catch up with the story so far, read We&#8217;ve been Alloted.
Lesson 1: Discovering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bathosphere.org/emstar/2011/06/28/my-first-spring-term-at-the-allotment/</link>
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		<title>Fiddlehead Ferns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was very excited to find these unusual vegetables on sale when we were in Vancouver in May. I first discovered Fiddleheads when I lived in Montreal. They are a traditional dish in Quebec and the Martimes, as well New England in the States.

Fiddlehead ferns are the unfurled fronds of ferns, but you can&#8217;t just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bathosphere.org/emstar/2010/06/27/fiddlehead-ferns/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to Chicago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We flew into Chicago on Tuesday evening, after catching a midday flight from Seattle (where we&#8217;d spent a few days visiting our friend Ted).

I got a window seat which was very cool. I love aerial views. I&#8217;m always trying to remember what I learned in geography, like oxbow lakes (formed when a meandering river takes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bathosphere.org/emstar/2010/05/30/welcome-to-chicago/</link>
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		<title>Fusion stir fry with tofu and brussel sprouts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love brussel sprouts but when they&#8217;re not being served with a turkey (i.e. when they&#8217;re being served in my house, as I leave the turkey cooking to the experts) and I&#8217;ve already sautÃ©d them up with chestnuts and bacon a few times, I&#8217;m looking for something else to do with them. Enter (yet another) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bathosphere.org/emstar/2010/03/03/fusion-stir-fry-with-tofu-and-brussel-sprouts/</link>
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