Monday, 15 June 2009

Harvest Begins!!!

We curiously dug up one of the potato plants today not knowing we would discover some modest sized potatoes attached. We lifted a few more plants which was slightly hit and miss but before we knew it we had half a bucket of nice sized potatoes. We lifted up 7 plants - Only another 193 plants to go. Shame Evie doesn't like them, he he!!! Hope everyone else does. Also lifted our first cabbage which tasted lovely. Its so exciting to cook with our own home grown produce. Even if we have got enough potatoes to feed the U.S Army.

We also planted 3 varieties of tomato plants - 2 x Shirley plants - 2 x money makers & 2 x Plum tomatoes. Quite intrigued to see how these turn out as the lottie is quite an open site to winds,etc. I'm sure if we stake them well they will be okay. As we had no more room at home we thought we would experiment with some peppers on the allotment. Really not expecting anything to happen but just thought we would see if they would survive there.

Whilst we were down there we noticed that the calabrese was just starting to show. Apparently within a week or two these will be ready to harvest as well which is exciting.























































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  1. PHILOMENA ELLIS15 June 2009 at 16:09

    I too have started to harvest Earlies and also taken my onions up.
    Also harvested Broadbeans and now in the freezer.

    Phil Ellis

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  2. PHILOMENA ELLIS27 August 2009 at 03:26

    I had a good harvest on 'duke of york reds and whites' I have decided to stick to this veriety as I had no problems. A fantastic yield. No slug holes or any other damage. I harvested the rest of duke of york last week and they were quite big spuds. fab-u-lous!!!!!!!!!!!

    Dont think much to 'Valour,Vivaldi,and charlotte as they had the blight. Very disappointing.
    phil

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