Progress on plot 2

Today MM and I dug up the last of the potatoes. Yields are very poor compared to last year, we had home grown potatoes June til the following March, we ll struggle to make Christmas this year. Even tho MM brought 25% more seed potatoes than 2011.
The rain, blight and lack of Sun i suppose are to blame. to

Blogging from my new phone

Just testing out my new

phone. Oven roasted tomatoes

Lots and lots of tomatoes

Our tomato harvest

Time

With changing jobs, time in the garden has decreased, which is very sad.
Anytime spent in the garden at the moment is mostly spent watering,
As the tomatoes are coming along great.

With lots and lots of food, finding the time to eat it all, is also differcult.
Everybody I know could have as many courgettes as they like,
We would not go short.

Blight got to our main crop potatoes, MM & SM cut the tops off, hopefully
Underneath there will be some unaffected potatoes to store for the winter.

All the onions, shallots and garlic are drying in this lovely weather.

Oh and roasted beet root is amazing.

Photos to follow in a few days?

84 leeks

Planted out 84 leeks today.......... just another 100 or so to go.

Food!

We are finally getting some food, pulled some rather large garlic today,
along with some shallots, and of course new potatoes!
It looks like we re going to get it all at once!

It is pretty hard to tell when some things are ready to harvest,
still very much being a beginner, when there is no local wisdom
around I do feel rather lame.
So I normally google it or re read my Monty Dom book.

GOLDEN NUGGETS

MM pulled up a few of the early potatoes yesterday........ and the crop is GOOD.
each root has plenty of good sized potatoes.
Now we have FOOD!
Courgettes are hit & miss, some are happy, some are very unhappy!
so far 3 courgettes to eat, more to come soon, fingers crossed.

The only problem I don't think we can do much about is the amount of slugs.
Theres millions of them!