Growing food

Tidying up the raspberry plants for winter

October 5, 2010
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We’ve had a good summer of fruit from the raspberry canes but now they’re seven feet tall and starting to take over the patio. Unfortunately it’s still too early to cut them down.

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This year’s potatoes are champions

August 29, 2010
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The potatoes we have grown this year are much bigger than any we’ve had before, and more plentiful, too. Digging them up also has the side-effect of conditioning the plot, so it’s a winner all round.

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We bag some bargain rhubarb for the garden

July 21, 2010
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A rhubarb plant for £2 was too good an offer to pass up, don’t you think? We were passing by the gardening stall on the market (which at this time of year is always full of seedling plants for those who were too lazy or too late to start their own) when we spotted them [...]

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Our redcurrants are… well, red

July 9, 2010
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Now that the strawberries are finally coming to an end in the plot, the redcurrant bush is really coming into its own.

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Picking the cherries and beans

July 7, 2010
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Our beans are cracking on at quite a pace, and tonight we picked and ate the first fruits of our labours. It’s a shame we can’t say the same for our cherries.

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We’re enjoying a garden fruit glut

July 2, 2010
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Our strawberry patch is having its best year ever, delivering more strawberries every day than we can possibly hope to eat. And now our raspberries are starting to fruit, too.

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Something is eating our strawberries

June 22, 2010
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A pest in the strawberry patch is eating our fruits almost as quickly as we can pick them. The culprit looks like it might be woodlice, but until we can be sure we’re not sure how to fight back.

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Returning home to find rampant potato growth

June 10, 2010
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Sometimes you don’t need to spend all day working in the garden: nature tends it for you all on its own. That’s what we discovered when we came back from a week away to find our potato crop racing ahead.

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They may still be green, but they’re strawberries

June 5, 2010
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With fruit it’s often best to wait and see. Bide your time, wait a year or two and you’ll be rewarded by the kind of crop we’re expecting from our strawberries this year.

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Potato progress

June 3, 2010
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Our seed potatoes are going great guns. Right across the plot now we have dark green leaves poking up through the soil. We have so many this should easily keep us in potatoes right through the winter.

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