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Growing Your Own Fruit and Vegetables

We grow our own fruit and vegetables for our meals for as much of the year as we can. Without a greenhouse we have to buy shop food in the winter months but in the spring, summer and autumn we often have enough to share with family and friends.

Read about growing your fruit and vegetables here on my growing your own food pages.

Friday 27 April 2012

Ground is now too wet to walk on without the risk of compacting it.

My sandy soil is now saturated by days of rain, which you might think is good news after the lack of rain.

However when the soil on the plot becomes this wet, I need to avoid trampling around on it.
Compacting the soil does it no favors, after all, part of the benefit of adding compost and manure to it is to improve the structure of the soil.

So it is walking on the paths only if it dries up enough to fit in a visit to the allotment this week.

a healthy potato plant in flower

a healthy potato plant in flower
photo of potatoes in flower

home grown carrots.. grown from seed

home grown carrots.. grown from seed
photo of my first bunch of carrots 2009

Even a small batch of mixed fruit can be useful

Even a small batch of mixed fruit can be useful
Home Grown Fruit can be made into delicious compote