Kathryn Rose
@artsyhonker.bsky.social
composer, gardener, hedge-botherer, immigrant, locavore, neurodivergent, chaser after the wind, pastoral assistant, high liturgy, high chaos, has a profile that's just a bunch of descriptors separated by commas, she/they
You just died.
This sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
This sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
You just died.
This sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
This sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
Same general class, yes. Sadly the allotment show does not have a "rude" section or I would have maybe submitted this melon.
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Same general class, yes. Sadly the allotment show does not have a "rude" section or I would have maybe submitted this melon.
Harvest a carrot today that weighs just over a pound. Can't decide whether to roast it as a centrepiece for a fact dinner or put it up as some kind of roadside display.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Harvest a carrot today that weighs just over a pound. Can't decide whether to roast it as a centrepiece for a fact dinner or put it up as some kind of roadside display.
This is not my cat, but he likes coming around for brushing and fuss.
Prayers assured.
Prayers assured.
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This is not my cat, but he likes coming around for brushing and fuss.
Prayers assured.
Prayers assured.
@billhookunion.beanyear.com ...any tips on how to eat honey locust?
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
@billhookunion.beanyear.com ...any tips on how to eat honey locust?
Here are some of them, which went to the harvest display at church and then straight to the soup kitchen
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Here are some of them, which went to the harvest display at church and then straight to the soup kitchen
Here's what mine looked like in September. I have one more still at the plot which was pollinated later and is smaller and less round.
October 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Here's what mine looked like in September. I have one more still at the plot which was pollinated later and is smaller and less round.
And now I need to sort and weigh this lot, which is everything that's either ripe or definitely ripe enough to ripen at home...
October 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
And now I need to sort and weigh this lot, which is everything that's either ripe or definitely ripe enough to ripen at home...
Large beans are large.
October 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Large beans are large.
The display in question. All produce (except the tin of beans) from my allotment or the Soup Garden at church, all will go towards the soup kitchen (they'll easily get through it in a week).
October 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The display in question. All produce (except the tin of beans) from my allotment or the Soup Garden at church, all will go towards the soup kitchen (they'll easily get through it in a week).
Eating a squash-based diet until this storage problem gets better
September 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Eating a squash-based diet until this storage problem gets better
Lots of allotment veg for the soup kitchen tomorrow. In combination with the bits and pieces I managed to bring from home or harvest from the Soup Garden on Thursday it should be enough for a decent curry, at any rate.
September 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Lots of allotment veg for the soup kitchen tomorrow. In combination with the bits and pieces I managed to bring from home or harvest from the Soup Garden on Thursday it should be enough for a decent curry, at any rate.
Anyway it has stopped raining again so I am going to go cut an armful of allotment chard for the soup kitchen, which falls under "feed the hungry", and maybe go visit a cute allotment cat, which harms absolutely nobody.
September 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Anyway it has stopped raining again so I am going to go cut an armful of allotment chard for the soup kitchen, which falls under "feed the hungry", and maybe go visit a cute allotment cat, which harms absolutely nobody.
@gnomeicide.bsky.social I'll check my field guides once I'm home but any idea on these? In compost I made of street leaves, tree surgeon ramial woodchips, coffee grounds and a bit of manure -- so they could be just about anything. White gills making me cautious. Smell of mushrooms.
September 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
@gnomeicide.bsky.social I'll check my field guides once I'm home but any idea on these? In compost I made of street leaves, tree surgeon ramial woodchips, coffee grounds and a bit of manure -- so they could be just about anything. White gills making me cautious. Smell of mushrooms.
Sometimes I am really sad that our allotment show doesn't have a "rude produce" category.
September 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Sometimes I am really sad that our allotment show doesn't have a "rude produce" category.
Allotment grapes (and assorted other produce); legally, councils in the UK have an obligation to provide growing space, though waiting lists tend to be silly and the land does get sold off for housing etc.
August 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Allotment grapes (and assorted other produce); legally, councils in the UK have an obligation to provide growing space, though waiting lists tend to be silly and the land does get sold off for housing etc.
I have no idea, I've never eaten it before!
The flowers are gorgeous and smell great in the evening.
The flowers are gorgeous and smell great in the evening.
August 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I have no idea, I've never eaten it before!
The flowers are gorgeous and smell great in the evening.
The flowers are gorgeous and smell great in the evening.
Anyway if anyone has a decent snake gourd recipe let me know, storing this thing in my kitchen is A Problem, it's 52 inches long.
August 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Anyway if anyone has a decent snake gourd recipe let me know, storing this thing in my kitchen is A Problem, it's 52 inches long.
So, um, does anyone have a good recipe for Italian snake gourd?
This is the longest of them, but there are certainly more. Have I left it too long, should I have eaten it while still green?
This is the longest of them, but there are certainly more. Have I left it too long, should I have eaten it while still green?
August 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
So, um, does anyone have a good recipe for Italian snake gourd?
This is the longest of them, but there are certainly more. Have I left it too long, should I have eaten it while still green?
This is the longest of them, but there are certainly more. Have I left it too long, should I have eaten it while still green?
Don't try to grow watermelons in the UK, they said. It's too cold here for them, they said.
They were wrong.
They were wrong.
August 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Don't try to grow watermelons in the UK, they said. It's too cold here for them, they said.
They were wrong.
They were wrong.
Something something composting something something
August 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Something something composting something something
Look on my works, ye mighty, and this:
July 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Look on my works, ye mighty, and this:
I just picked tomatoes yesterday but today there are more tomatoes again.
Also: baked jacket potatoes for supper tonight, hurrah!
Also: baked jacket potatoes for supper tonight, hurrah!
July 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I just picked tomatoes yesterday but today there are more tomatoes again.
Also: baked jacket potatoes for supper tonight, hurrah!
Also: baked jacket potatoes for supper tonight, hurrah!
Cucurbit situation, generally: overwhelming. Most of these are winter squashes, but out of sight down at the the end there are the melons, cucumbers and some pattypan style summer squash. The first picture is from 17th June, the second from today: a month of growth.
July 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Cucurbit situation, generally: overwhelming. Most of these are winter squashes, but out of sight down at the the end there are the melons, cucumbers and some pattypan style summer squash. The first picture is from 17th June, the second from today: a month of growth.
Melon situation: soon. Sooooooooon.
July 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Melon situation: soon. Sooooooooon.