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Tag Archives: potato
Potato planting at Easter
The main event of the Easter weekend was a party for a friend-relative’s #itscomplicated 65th birthday. Because we have a house with large rooms, and the huge garden, family parties often happen here. This meant Friday was taken with some … Continue reading
Posted in Composting, Herbs, House, not garden, Organic gardening, Ornamentals, Vegetables
Tagged April, flowers, gardening, greenhouse, ornamental gardening, potato, potatoes, seed sowing, seeds, Trees
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Spring sowings and stuff
I’ve been back at work a week and a half now and the holiday seems like eons ago. Got lots done though, including set up new veg plot for Jethro and Hannah – now growing them some plants to put … Continue reading
Posted in Chickens, Herbs, Organic gardening, Ornamentals, Permaculture, Planning, Vegetables
Tagged April, chooks, coppicing, flowers, garden planning, gardening, greenhouse, herbal remedies, herbalism, orchard, ornamental gardening, potato, potatoes, poultry, pruning, pruning fruit, seed potatoes, seed sowing, seeds, woodland
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Potato Day and Seedy Sunday
Wow what a busy weekend – and no time for gardening! Saturday was Heart of England Organic Group‘s annual potato day – always on the first Saturday of February if you want to put it in your diary for evermore. … Continue reading
Potatoes 2016
I thought I’d write short reviews of the crops I grew this year and ideas of what i want to do differently next year. So I’ll start with the potatoes I harvested a few weekends ago. They were Sarpo Mira, … Continue reading
Posted in Organic gardening, Uncategorized, Vegetables
Tagged gardening, no-dig, organic gardening group, potato, potatoes, sarpo, spud, spuds
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What to do with 175 tomato plants?
See. the packet of seed was 2 years old this year – and that’s my rule to avoid non-germination disappointment. 2 years and then chuck them away. So, I thought, may as well sow them all. Then I sat down … Continue reading
Posted in Chickens, Organic gardening, Uncategorized, Vegetables
Tagged April, brussel sprouts, brussels, chooks, flowers, greenhouse, kale, monthly jobs in the garden, onion, onions, potato, potatoes, seed sowing, seeds, shallot, shallots, sprouts, spud, spuds, tomato, tomatoes
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