Next years seed catalogues have started to arrive, including the potato one and even though our home grown potatoes were basically a waste of time and an even bigger waste of money this year, I am still planning on trying them again next year.
The difficulty is deciding what to grow, and being rational about it. Just [...]
Posts Tagged ‘potato’
Potatoes
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, allotment, tagged potato on September 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Weekend seed sowing
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, tagged Garden, potato, seeds on March 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The forecast wasn’t really the best for seed sowing as frosts were due, and there was one, so I didn’t really sow as much as I’d planned.
I did start of early carrots, red spring onions, to go with the white spring onions I sowed last weekend, rocket and kale for trying as salad leaves but [...]
In like a lamb
Posted in Chicken, Food, Garden, Goats, Home grown food, Homemade, Sheep, tagged allotment, Garden, lamb, lambing, potato, Sheep, sunday, sunshine on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend has been trying, but pleasant. It’s amazing how much more energy and how less tired I feel now I finally know what is happening at work. I woke up on Saturday and couldn’t wait to get out of bed and started on my weekend, I haven’t woke up and not felt tired for [...]
Weekend working
Posted in Chickens, Day-to-day, Food, Garden, Goats, Home grown food, Homemade, tagged farming, Garden, garlic, Homemade, potato, sweet, young famers on January 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This weekend was really good and productive for me, inspite of the weather forecast predicting rain and high winds it really wasn’t that bad during the day.
On Friday I got up late even though I’d plan to get up and start the day, over Christmas I got into the habit of not going to bed [...]
Boxes by the goats
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, tagged freecycle, Garden, heirloom, heritage, LETS, Local Exchange Trading System, petrol, potato, seeds, sweetcorn, van, vegetables on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had a bit of a rubbish day yesterday, for a few reasons my ‘main’ job is not the funnest place to be at the moment, then on the way home (from my second job) I ‘broke-down’, or let the van run out of petrol. Luckly it didn’t happen until I got to the bottom [...]
Look at the camera, now smile!
Posted in Food, Garden, Goats, Home grown food, tagged caterpillar, courgettes, Garden, photo, planning, potato, strawberry, summer, tomatoes on September 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is the photo my middle-sister took of me with my basket full of courgettes at the weekend, all harvested just minutes earlier from the ‘muck heap’ garden. I’ve never been keen on having ‘look at the camera’ photos taken, no matter how real your smile might be they always seem to have a fake [...]
Christmas Carrots
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, Homemade, tagged carrots, Christmas, Christmas Dinner, polytunnel, potato on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know it’s a little bit sad that I’m already planning Christmas dinner, and really looking forward to it, but it would be really nice to have has much of what we can home grown.
I’m going to try potato’s again this year. I tried growing them for Christmas last year but was a little bit late with [...]
