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Growing food

Our beansprouts are stunted

March 10, 2010
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Our home-grown beansprouts are a lot shorter than we had expected, and look nothing like the kind of beansprouts you’d buy in the shops. We’ve followed the instructions to the letter, which leaves us wondering what we did wrong.

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We’re growing our own beansprouts

March 4, 2010
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I never realised beansprouts were mung beans, despite eating them at least once a week. I bet not many other people know that either, when you consider how bad a reputation mung beans have as a staple of itchy, scratchy eco lifestyles.

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Chitting potatoes… at last

March 2, 2010
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Our potato order has finally arrived, so we have laid out the new tubers in the outhouse so they can start chitting. They should be ready for planting by early April for a bumper summer crop.

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We’ve planted a redcurrant bush

February 16, 2010
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After planting a redcurrant bush we have counted up the different fruits we are growing and found that we are at ten. Not bad going for a very small plot. It should make for some tasty jams over the next few years.

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Planting a lingonberry plant

February 15, 2010
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We are growing our own lingonberry plant so that we can use the cranberry-like fruits in pies and cakes. Unfortunately our plant is very small, so it may take a while to mature.

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Our 2010 seeds have arrived

February 11, 2010
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The seeds for this summer’s crops have arrived, with a few weeks to spare. Although we are still waiting for our seed potatoes and the will need chitting, most of our crops don’t need starting until March.

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We’ve planted some rhubarb

February 2, 2010
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We have been out in the plot planting rhubarb crowns. These are fairly inexpensive, and although we’ll have to wait until next year before we can take our first harvest it will be much cheaper than buying cut rhubarb in the shops.

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We’ve ordered our seeds for 2010

January 30, 2010
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Spring is approaching, so we’ve been sitting down with the seed catalogues again and finally ordered this year’s seeds. We’re growing tomatoes, potatoes, beans and more, with a few fruity experiments thrown in for variety.

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Time to start planting for 2010

January 25, 2010
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It’s time to start planting the seeds for this year’s vegetable crops, and the Royal Horticultural Society is lending a hand with a functional, useful guide to what you should plant, and when.

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Digging our first parsnips

January 19, 2010
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We were worried that the melting snow – and the rain the followed – would have ruined our parsnip crop, but after digging up the first four specimens we’re pleasantly surprised.

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