Posts Tagged ‘potatoes’

Garden and Site Update 25th July 09

It’s been a bit of a strange month this month, we have had some scorching weather followed by floods and torrential rain so one minute the plants in the greenhouse are cooked and crispy the next they are under water.  Last week i spent an hour removing water from the greenhouse in buckets after a [...]

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Another Busy Weekend

As i’d mentioned in another post earlier, it was a busy weekend in the garden, as well as fixing the green house, i did a whole lot of other stuff, including planting my spuds (charlotte, nicola, kestril and maris piper, planted my onions in the cold frame, planting my goji berry bush, planting lots of [...]

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Bought: Seed Potatoes

Popped into town yesterday to do a bit of shopping and nipped into wilkinsons, this is where i usually get my potato seeds form as they are cheap and usually good quality.
The idea with seed potatoes is that you buy them then put them somewhere cool and light to “chit”. Chitting is the process of [...]

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