Category Archives: Smallholding

[16th August] Disaster! Or perhaps even “Dis-Aster!” Around late April when I was weeding around the parsnips I found a sunflower seedling. I rather like sunflowers, so I decided to leave it to grow. And grow it did. And grow. … Continue reading →

[8th August] Lifted the last of the potatoes today. And discovered buried treasure! Oddly enough the second coin I’ve found whilst digging in the veggie plot over the years. It’s a 1973 ten pence piece. We stopped using this design … Continue reading →

[4th August] Had a little wander around the garden this evening whilst collecting some veg for dinner and noticed that some of the butternut squashes in the polytunnel are now getting quite large. I started to trim off some of … Continue reading →

[30 July] Over the last couple of days I’ve also lifted our Maris Piper and King Edward potatoes. I mentioned that some were dying back earlier. It’s become clear now that there’s a definite patch where they’re dying back whilst … Continue reading →

[24th July] The second earlies are definitely dying back now, so I lifted them this evening. These are Charlotte, and definitely more yellow I would say than the International Kidney first earlies. I also noticed this when I was checking … Continue reading →

[21st July] I had another harvest of eggs today: That’s an awful lot of potential caterpillars 🙁 I assume they must have been from two different butterflies as one group looks rather scruffy and the other is very neat and … Continue reading →

[20th July] We’ve lifted a few of the first early potatoes already to go pretty much straight into the pan, but they are starting to get a bit large and I could use the space for something else, so I … Continue reading →

[19th July] Planted another batch of radish and spring onions today as well as doing a little weeding. Caught sight of these this afternoon. Far too obvious, I thought. Clearly there’s an attempt at misdirection here. So I had a … Continue reading →

[18th July] Spent most of today out in the garden. Finished shredding the laurel we “pruned” at last, and added it to the compost heap. Then planted out the last of the brassicas (some multi-coloured cauliflowers my daughter chose) and … Continue reading →

[15th July] More garden veggies for dinner this evening 🙂 Including some of the multi-coloured carrots that my daughter wanted to plant. I didn’t realise quite how multi-coloured they were going to be. This is the top cut off one … Continue reading →