Time to Quit? Potato Harvest
poor season on the plot and I've been pretty down what with Covid and the blasted back. I've even thought about quitting. Great spuds!
My diary of my attempts, success and failures growing vegetables, fruit, herbs and gardening on an allotment.sized vegetable plot with a garden as well
poor season on the plot and I've been pretty down what with Covid and the blasted back. I've even thought about quitting. Great spuds!
I’ve had a few people contact me about wet onions recently - the problem explained
The flu was Covid which has hit us hard. Apples having a fantastic year but hit by Storm Betty. Masses of beans and tomatoes.
We're down with a rotten bug but getting some help from my grandson to harvest potatoes.
Things are looking good with the harvest despite the weather. Cauliflowers to Carrots, Beans to Tomatoes and Cucumbers.
Building a - hopefully - rat proof potato store, potting up hazel nut trees and planting out savoy cabbages for winter.
Gardening for children, flowers to fruits, it's all go at this time of year in the garden. The greenhouses doing well too.
Yesterday the web site was either offline or so slow as to be unusable for the day so I was batch cooking in the kitchen.
Now the heatwave has broken I can get on with the garden tasks, I think 2023 is going to be the year of fruit! Happy Solstice.
Is it possible to compost weeds? The answer is that it depends. In this case on which weeds and how they’re composted.
I've concerns that the flooding of Ukrainian farmland is going to inflate UK food prices. It’s worse than I thought..
Trying out a cool tip for growing peppers, germination rates down? Expect more price hikes due to the Ukraine war.
From cucumbers to sweet potatoes, taking advantage of the glorious weather we're enjoying at the moment in Wales.
Peat is to be banned for home growers next year. Is it justified and does it make sense? From the evidence, I don’t believe it does.
Preparing for squash, runner beans poor, sweetcorn seedlings, gooseberry sawfly attacks jostaberries and strawberries ripen.
With a ban looming for peat based composts, home growers are increasingly trying out coir based composts. Many are hitting problems.
New potatoes arrive, delicious cauliflower, peas and brassicas. Climbing beans, grass much improved and watching the farmer fertilise fields.
Just some thoughts about buying in plants instead of growing from seed. Sometimes it makes more sense to buy in young plants.
It’s been an enjoyable, productive and busy week, both outside and in the potting shed, polytunnel and greenhouses.
Greenhouse tomatoes planted in border, fruit trees in heavy blossom, brassicas planted out and a Garden Tiger Moth woolly bear caterpillar!