Andrew had to abandon all other tasks and dig part of the potato crop as the badgers have been helping themselves!
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Aug
25
2010
Fight Against Blight
Forewarned is forearmed so last month I registered with the website www.potato.org.uk/blight . You put in your postal code and they let you know if there is blight reported in your area. Earlier this week I received an sms message telling me there had been reports locally, so now I’m keeping a careful eye on my potatoes and will whip off the foliage at the first sign of problems.
Aug
07
2010
Grow your own
We are now eating our own potatoes – the Charlottes have cropped well and taste great and we should have the first picking of runner beans this weekend. The soft fruit is in full swing and Andrew is picking plenty to freeze as well as supplying our 5-a-day.
Mar
18
2010
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Andrew has tidied up the soft fruit beds and mulched them with well-rotted manure and dug one bed after spreading more manure on it in readiness for the potatoes.
Sep
06
2009
In the Garden this Week
In the garden: Until this morning’s heavy downpour things were getting a bit parched in the garden, with a decidedly end-of-summer look, but a good soaking rain should reinvigorate things.
On the Allotment: Andrew has harvested half of the maincrop potatoes. Harlequin, a cross between Charlotte and Pink Fir Apple is a real winner with an abundance of beautifully clean, smooth tubers . We are storing them in hessian sacks in the outside store where they will be cool, but dry. I’ve just sent off for green manure seeds from www.greenchronicle.co.uk and as crops are harvested we can sow it so that the soil is covered over winter.
