easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in gardening on Jul 24th, 2010
This is my entire crop of first early potatoes – a 14cm plant pot almost-full. Okay, so that’s not very many potatoes from four plants, but there were dozens more teeny-tiny ones clinging to the roots. Skycarrots reliably informs me that if I’d been better at watering them, the tiny potatoes would have been much [...]
Posted in gardening on Jul 7th, 2010
I’ve been a teensy bit busy lately, and that’s meant I haven’t had much time for blogging. Plenty to blog about, but no time to sit down and write about it! I haven’t had much time to pay attention to the garden this week, and I’ve mostly been watering it in the dark, so somehow [...]
Posted in gardening on Jun 24th, 2010
Today I found out what a potato flower looks like. If only I could remember which varieties I planted, I could find out the right time to dig them up! (Seriously… how do you know when your potatoes are ready to harvest?!)
Over the weekend Skycarrots hosted a harvest festival! A small group of us got together and brought masses of food and drinks that we’d grown, foraged, brewed and baked. All of the salad and vegetables were from Sarah’s allotment, with the addition of my cherry tomatoes. The big square pie is pumpkin and feta, and [...]