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?

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!

New Potatoes!

Just showing off a bit..........

We planted 4 potatoes in march

3 were the same variety, 1 was different.

One potato bust into action

As you can see, 3 were much slower

The '3' started to catch up

Until the '3' got much bigger than the '1'

The plant closest to the camera was the first 

to show & seems to have given up!

One of the '3' starting to flower

The '3' have completely taken over, 

Time to have a look to see if we have 

any food?

SM dives in to harvest the spuds!

Now we know the '1' plant was an early

& the '3' are main crop Desiree

So we have finally got some food

'1' down '3' to go

I am hoping there is a few more at the bottom of the container

I ll have a good dig around in a few days, if not 

I might steal a few red potatoes from under one of the other plants! 

The main reason for this was to see the if & how of growing potatoes in containers, 

we'll maybe use this method to grow potatoes for xmas?

SUNSHINE

What a difference a day makes............... with just a few hours of sunshine today.
Basil, chillies & sweet peppers all germinated today, the sweet peppers
have taken nearly 30 days to show.

I am very happy about the lettuce which I spent a bit of time in to
planting the seeds, as they are so bloody small.
I used a pencil which I dipped in water to pick up individual
seeds.

We are still waiting to plant the main crop potatoes, finger crossed for a bit of fair weather.

Potatoes

Check out our potato story so far.....