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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, 28 July 2012

Keep checking any potatoes that you are storing - if there is a chance that blight has affected them

If blight has been a problem on your plot or any nearly plots - remember to check your harvested potatoes.
We are discovering that some of the potatoes with damage or marks on them are needing to be thrown out after a couple of days. If you have stored any potatoes, it is important to check them frequently and regularly and discard any that are going soft. I do not put them on the compost heap.

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