Monthly Archives: May 2026

First Potatoes, Sweetcorn, Cucurbits, Beans

Our first potatoes. Chitting sweetcorn , soaking cucumber seeds for sowing. Optimum temperatures for reliable, fast germination.

Carrots in Polytunnel

Deformed Carrots and Distorted Parsnips

Why carrots or parsnips have become deformed, forked, twisted or even a sort of tangled ball of roots more like spaghetti than a carrot.

Lettuce in Greenhouse Border

Planting Out

Not posted for a while, lots happened though. Planted out brassicas, alliums and started planting out in the new greenhouse.

Shredder and Chipped Branches in Bags

Using My Stihl Garden Shredder for Cardboard

My excellent plan to shred a lot of cardboard using my Stihl GHE 105 garden shredder to enable the card to compost. Fail!

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