vegetables

Struggling to keep the potatoes under control

May 19, 2011
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I‘m still digging up potatoes from last year’s crop. They’re giving themselves away by starting to sprout, and shooting long stems and thick green leaves up through the soil. It’s a bit galling pulling them all up as they would have made good eaters if they hadn’t started shooting, and I can’t help wondering how [...]

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Eating the first lettuce of 2011

May 15, 2011
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We’ve just eaten the first of this year’s crops. Admittedly it was only lettuce, but we celebrated by pulling up three whole baby heads, dousing them with some dressing and eating them with half a lunchtime pizza each. Sadly no tomatoes to go with it yet.

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The artichokes are rising… and so are the errant potatoes

May 7, 2011
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We’re growing artichokes for the first time this year. Why? Because we had them when we were out for dinner a few months back and loved them. Neither of us had ever eaten them before, and we actually thought they were potatoes when they turned up. Not surprising, really. They looked like potatoes in the [...]

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End of the season

November 23, 2010

As winter approaches, we’ve been tidying up the plot and the greenhouse, and were surprised to find some new tomatoes growing on our vines.

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We’ve harvested our main potato crop

October 27, 2010
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The tops of our potato plants have died down, so we dig up the crop and found 135 potatoes waiting under the surface. A bumper crop that should see us through to spring.

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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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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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Our first rhubarb of the year

June 19, 2010
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Our rhubarb is still maturing very slowly, as it’s only its first year in the garden. With that in mind, the offer of some dead cheap rhubarb sticks on the market was just too good to pass up.

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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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