During the wet weather this weekend I’ve sat down and gone through the potato seed catalogue and decided what I think is going to be best to grow next year. Potatoes are very much a staple food here, but even so I did go a little over board with my seed potato buying this year and, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘potatoes’
Potato planning: A plan
Posted in Food, Home grown food, allotment, tagged gardening, potatoes on November 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Loose ends
Posted in Chickens, Garden, Goats, Home grown food, Poultry, tagged cows, Goats, LETS, potatoes on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, the cows have gone and life is carrying on as it does. We are starting to think of what to get next, as we do enjoy the cows milk we will get another one, it is just a matter of what and when.
There have been other things that have happened in the last week [...]
Free Seeds
Posted in Day-to-day, Food, Garden, Home grown food, Wild Food, tagged apples, carrots, chechnuts, freecycle, fruit trees, Garden, heirloom, heritage, LETS, PayPal, potatoes, seeds, wood, wood burner on October 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I started ordering some more seeds for next year today, lots of different colours of carrot. Some red, two different purples, yellow and some orange (mini and giant.) I’ve tried to order non-F1seeds, the mini and giant are, so as I can have ago at saving some seed from them, and the yellow coloured ones [...]
Potatoes and mushrooms
Posted in Food, Garden, Goats, Home grown food, Wild Food, tagged mustrooms, potatoes on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s my day off today, I got up this morning and got distracted by the vegetable garden on the way down to the goats (in the end Rhys went and feed them instead) one of the boxes that’s had potatoes growing in it was looking very empty of plant so I pull at one of [...]
Yahoo! Reminders
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, tagged Christmas, potatoes, reminders, Yahoo on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I got my reminder for Yahoo! today to start chitting my potatoes for growing for Christmas, just need to find some potatoes now!
A weekend of half dones
Posted in About nothing really, Chickens, Day-to-day, Garden, Goats, Quail, tagged carrots, Cats, LETS, potatoes, summer, weather on May 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last weekend was hot, I was off Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and I think only on the Thursday was it cool enough to be outside working all day. The other days had a few hours mid-afternoon that just had to be spend sat inside in the cool until outside was cooler.
So really it doesn’t [...]
