This means war
Unfortunately, today I spotted the first damage to the vegetables this year. The carefully nurtured Spagna Bianco beans, in their own small bed, had had their leaves eaten. I don’t […]
Tag Archives: potatoes
New shoots
After eight weeks of growing their sprouts indoors, the potatoes finally went into the ground today. I had left a polythene sheet over the target raised bed for most of […]
Sowing & planting
Broad beans, spring onions, fertiliser, weeds and rain. That was today’s agenda for the raised beds. A bit of weeding in the onion patch revealed that the overwintering sets have […]
Potato and spinach
I’ve been submitting photos to the Grow Your Own magazine Virtual Show competition this week. Today this was my entry in the ‘best dish made with own ingredients’ category. It’s […]
When the chips are down
This year we grew two potato crops: Charlotte variety for second earlies and King Edwards for maincrops. The Charlottes have been delicious, if modest in number. Their savoury, firm flesh […]
One potato, Two potatoes
My seed potatoes arrived today and they’re already sitting in egg boxes in a cool room, hopefully throwing out plenty of sprouts in the next week or two. At that […]
Winter warming food
This was dinner last night. Some slightly indulgent venison steak, accompanied by lots of last season’s home-grown veg from the freezer. From the top: venison topped with pancetta, on toast, […]
Competition cooking
These are a couple of dishes I made and submitted to the Grow Your Own forum competition this week. All home grown ingredients. First, a potato and rocket salad: And […]
Pink potatoes
Lifted a whole load of these from one of the raised beds this weekend. They’re Rooster maincrop potatoes and have pink flesh with a cream interior. They’re drying indoors at […]
