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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.

Saturday 11 June 2016

New Potatoes Soon.


Looking closely at my rows of first early potatoes as I gently removed the weeds that were growing close to them ( having early carefully cut down any emerging weeds in between the rows with a hoe); I can just see the start of the potato flowers starting to grow. Hopefully the warm weather will remain to encourage the development of the potatoes. The anticipation of eating own grown new potatoes got a step closer to reality with yesterdays allotment visit.

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