Low Spend November Update and Other Stuff

 I reckon this is the only way to buy Brussel Sprouts - any that have been picked and bagged and transported miles are already old.

Got these from outside a house in the village that sometimes  has a few veg things out for sale with an honesty box. I'd walked up to the pub next door to put  a couple of jars in the bottle bank  and had to go home and get some cash when I saw the sprouts. £1.50 and I'll keep them outside, they'll be good for a few weeks.

At last a proper Yellow Sticker bargain from Asda, where butter has just gone up to £2 for 250g (what used to be ½ lb) and  up to £1.89 at Aldi. So when I spotted some 500g packs at the back of their reduced chiller cabinet  for £2.13, I grabbed 4 packs. The odd thing is that I've never seen butter in 500g packs anywhere around here before.

The home-grown tomatoes from the freezer, 3 red peppers and 2 red chilli's and all the other bits made 7 jars of my favourite red chutney/relish. A few will be given away and the rest will last me until next year. I completely forgot to get red onions so had to use ordinary which has spoiled the red-ness - but not the taste.

How's Low spend November going at the end of the third week?

Brought forward £331.75

Last Saturday Christmas Fairs £2.50 + £2.50 jigsaw (all for charity)

Rest of the weeks spending including the Brussel Sprout stalk + Keep Moving Group +Toothpaste + New Jar Lids + Food  from Asda and Aldi including the 2kg of bargain butter and red and chili peppers for the Red Relish    =    £54.30

So to carry forward  £391.05. Diesel to buy for the car and electric meter reading to ring in and then pay for this coming week and I shall ring and order 500litres of heating oil very soon.

Low spend November might suffer a setback because guess how many Christmas Fayres there are this weekend - all within about 10 miles .................................................................................... 

4 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday.................. and these are only the ones I know about! I won't be visiting them all!

Thanks to everyone who's read the blog through another week ......Hope you all have a good weekend.

Back Monday

Sue

Growing For Winter On the Hottest Days

 The brassica  plants I'd ordered arrived - just as the weather got hot, hot ,HOT!

I bought Kale and Brussels Sprouts - because they both produce the most from the smallest space.

They came from Browns Seed Company this year and the quality was excellent. I waited until evening before planting out after they had been in the shade and in water .

They came in 10s and now half are planted out and the others have gone to Brother in Law.

Surrounded with the wire netting frames brought with me from Clay Cottage and covered with enviromesh to keep the  Cabbage White butterflies and any other critters out .

 

Hope I can keep them alive through this heatwave. 

 

Back Tomorrow

Sue