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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.

Thursday, 9 June 2016

Update on My Lack of Recent Postings.

I have just started writing again after a big gap.

The allotment still is important to me and I am still busy working on it. I have now finally started to plan ideas that will make it (hopefully) less work so I will have more time to write and enjoy the results (instead of being occupied and concerned about the perennial weed battle) . I have a plot that likes to grow bindweed, mares-tail and couch grass as soon as I look away.

I will try to update and post photos  ( of the results from the plot and include good, the bad and the ugly) as often as possible. You know how sometimes there is a back log of jobs that need doing at both home and the allotment, well that is how it has been for sometime.

Now off to see -  if the pigeons have attacked any of my young pea plants overnight.
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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