Archive for January, 2012

Gardening Poetry

garden poetry

This is a guest post from Kate Williams, who is a many-times published poet. Now specialising in garden poetry, which she reads to gardening clubs around the country. The two gardening poems below are just a small selection from Kate’s website, Kate Williams Poetry   Our Allotment We don’t get a lot on our allotment, [...]

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Chitting Seed Potatoes

chitted potatoes

Seed Potatoes. These are the tuberous growths on the roots of the potato plant. Grown in disease free conditions and harvested before maturity. Stored in a controlled environment until conditions are right for planting the following season.   Chitting Seed potatoes. This is a method of starting the small seed potatoes into growth before out [...]

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