Archive for July, 2010

Plant New Potatoes for Christmas Dinner

new potatoes for christmas

New Potatoes for Christmas Dinner. The old trick was to try and store a few tubers of the first early varieties planted out in spring. This often resulted in very varying results. But now the seed potato suppliers store them for us just at the right temperature so they are ready to plant at the [...]

July in the veg plot

allotment diary 2010

The vegetable garden will be in full production and crops will need regular picking over to sustain the continued production of fresh young produce. Leaving vegetables to get to their maximum size is counter productive, as this slows down their growth and the result is less harvest from the plant, plus they taste better when [...]

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