Lanzarote – Growing in the Wind
Our holiday in Lanzarote gave us some good ideas for coping with windy conditions
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Last Post for A While
Last post as we're taking a holiday - first for 3 years - in the sun
Tempest and Flood
A quick trip to France via 'Down the Lane' returning to storm and flood.
Welsh Chainsaw Massacre
Making sure I don't end up in hospital even if I look daft in my fetching green and orange chainsaw protective gear. Plus a moan about being warned too much about safety.
Clearing the New Plot
Clearing the walled garden and developing an inferiority complex after meeting a ram!
Changing Plans
Sheep, the land girls of Fron Dirion, come to my rescue clearing long grass away
Late Potato Blight is Your Fault
Commercial growers trying to blame home growers for blight - patently ridiculous!
Sarpo Potatoes Success
Sarpo blight resistant potatoes give us a maincrop, runner beans not too bad and the leeks are catching up
Machinery and Weather Blues
Shredder plays up but easily fixed. Weather continues awful.
A Perfect Day
Saturday was well nigh perfect. The sun shone and the sky was an electric blue with wispy white clouds.
Can Growing Your Own Save Money?
A visit to the shops leaves me shaken at the prices demanded for fresh fruit and veg.
Win some and lose some
New compost bins going up but the dratted caterpillars have eaten my brassicas.
Potato Troubles, White Spots on Potatoes
What are those white spots on the potatoes?
What Can You Grow on Your Allotment?
What can you grow on your allotment and what not? It all depends on the rules.
Why Grow Your Own?
Best tasting cucumber and masses of slugs like a horror film, advancing on the crops
Garlic, Potatoes, Leeks and Slugs
Had a few days of summer for a change so I declared a holiday and got outside and played on the plot
Bit rough but plodding on
I'm ill but worse than that, the potatoes have blight! Even struck in the greenhouse, tomatoes have blight too.
Greenhouse Success
Hoping to miss the potato blight, some real success stories in the greenhouse
Summer Starts, Potato Harvest
Managed to get some potatoes, cucumbers and even a few tomatoes.
Dodging the Raindrops
A busy week on the plot, between the rain managed to get a lot done
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