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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.

Sunday, 26 August 2012

The Potatoes we had to remove the foliage from are not damaged

We are some what surprised that the potatoes that we removed the marked foliage from are as good as any we have had in the past.

We were half expecting the worst when we dug up the potatoes that we had been forced to remove the leaves from by the blight hitting other plots. As our potato foliage was showing signs of the same markings we removed and destroyed all the leaves and stems. The potatoes that we left in the ground for a week or two after that and have since harvested are proving to be a success at the family dinner table. Fears that the potatoes devoid of their leaves, might have suffered damage seem to have been ill founded. We have not lost any of the potatoes yet, thankfully.


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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