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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, 23 June 2012

If you have lots of potatoes growing - unearthing a few early as a treat is not a bad idea

Although if I leave the potatoes in the ground longer then I will get a bigger crop, the first early new potatoes are a treat. So, occasionally when I am working on the vegetable plot I gently unearth just enough of the small potatoes for a meal. I leave the potato plant growing on as if you are careful when you harvest a few potatoes you can leave the rest to grow on. It is an old fashioned custom and has a quaint name.
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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