Category: Growing for Flavour

It’s amazing, it’s wonderful. At last all the work we have putin is worthwhile.

OK, the broad beans have been coming for some time. Now we also have th dwarf french beans, the runner beans and the butter beans all looking goo.

Similarly the Charlotte potatoes are looking though the Jazzy and Orla have not produced large crops, tasty though they are.

Whilst the tomatoes have hardly  started, the cucumbers are prolific.

AND there’s the strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants.

OK it was only for one day but we did get the chance to replant some of our losses. We can still applaud our good fortune  with the plants that have done well.

In particular our tomatoes and  (after a battle) the runner beans, may be a little early. so we are calling any success.

AND just like farmers we now sit and wait.

Spring has sprung or has it?

The only hard frost was in early January, since then it has been wet and warm, indeed very wet- even as I write this. Will there be another frost by the end of April?

Outdoors the onions and garlics are doing well. The PSB are rubbish this year, though the leeks are still going well. The Broad beans have not come good.

Indoors the Jazzy potatoes are now fully earthed up in their grow bags with Orla about 3 weeks later. Some seeds have not germinated yet, though the snapdragons have now been potted on.

For the moment  the winter maintenance has not been finished so I bought some white pelargoniums and geraniums to make it look like spring.