vegetables

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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Our beans are being eaten… and not by us

June 1, 2010
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Something is eating our beans. We suspect the slugs. It is very irritating when they have only been in the plot a few days after weeks of care in the greenhouse.

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Popular Blagger posts of May 2010

May 30, 2010
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May was a month of getting produce back in the plot in time for this year’s growing season. It was also the month we said goodbye to one of the longest serving members of our little home flock.

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A surprise showing from the ‘dead’ rhubarb

May 20, 2010
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A rhubarb root that we thought had died in the ground seems to have found a new lease of life and is rather unexpectedly starting to shoot. Better late than never.

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This year’s beans are in the ground

May 18, 2010
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It feels like summer is finally on the way as I can now look out of the window and see the wigwam of bamboo canes I have built to support this year’s bean crop.

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The monster parsnips in our plot

April 21, 2010
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I‘ve dug out the plot. It seemed about time considering we’ve now started off this year’s crops in the greenhouse. A little bit of warm weather, some watering and a bit of shooting, and they’ll be ready for transplanting. So I pulled back the little polytunnel which has succeeded in propagating nothing but clover and [...]

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Dig on for Victory by C H Middleton

April 2, 2010
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First published in 1945, it is a week-by-week guide of what you need to be doing and when in your vegetable garden. It may be over 60 years old now, but the unfussy and easily followed advice it contains remains relevant today.

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The rhubarb is shooting

March 30, 2010
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The first of our rhubarb roots has started to show signs of shooting. We’re not going to force it this year, but instead let it get itself established so that by next year we should be harvesting enough fruit for a few summer crumbles.

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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 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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