Wet and Damp – and some Fails
It has been very wet and damp these last weeks and now the sun is much lower during…
Category: Vegetables
Late Broad Beans
I never used to like broad beans, but now I think they are great both with skins on…
Late Peas Flowering
These late peas are now flowering and so with hope might get one or two pods out of…
Red Onion Harvest
Not the biggest onions in the world, but they were planted pretty late. All the same though, these…
Turnips all in a row
Very gloomy weather that seemed to hang over just our street which has given a wet drizzly winters…
How are the winter seedlings doing?
After a lot of rain the winter seedlings are popping up all over the place. The turnips have…
OK to Pod Peas – But Never To Eat
Jack loves podding peas, but even at the mention of eating one and he will look at you…
Eating French Beans
We have taken a couple of pickings of our french beans this week. We have grown runner beans…
Eating Carrots
We have had plenty of radish and lettuce from the square foot garden, but both of those get…
Potato Harvest for 2010
These were early potatoes but we planted them a month late and so it made sense that we…
Potatoes for Schools – Chitting
A scheme being run by the UK Potato Council for schools is the Grow Your Own Potatoes programme. …
Christmas New Potatoes
A little story of success! We found an old potato on the back of the cupboard (not a…