August 17, 2008

w18 Potatoes dug up

STeve @ 8:56 pm

The great things about potatoes, you put them in and they sprout.  They all look nice and green, and the little white flowers are quite nice.  They just sit there doing nothing, not much to do with looking after them, they are just there for ages and ages.  Sometimes they die back and it all looks a mess.  But when it comes to digging them up it is the best treasure finding fun you can ever have.  Digging down with a fork or even your hands (in our case our hands digging down into the pot) and uncovers loads of yummy looking potatoes.  They have been growing and sitting there for so many months - and now it is time to eat them.  Yum yum.

Next year, we will be more planned and have two pots!

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August 11, 2008

w17 Should dig up those potatoes

STeve @ 4:53 pm

We don’t know what type of potato they are, but I think now we are in august it is about time we dug these out…

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July 14, 2008

@week 13 - potato flowers

STeve @ 2:09 pm

We have flowers on the potatoes.  I didn’t really know if we would get any flowers, not knowing what make or model these potatoes are.

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June 17, 2008

@week 9 - Potatoes

STeve @ 7:29 pm

These continue to grow and flowers can just be seen about to pop out

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May 13, 2008

@Four Weeks

STeve @ 9:46 pm

So much going on and so little time to do things!   I have added a whole load of extra things this week, so comments are with the photos.  It has been sun sun sun, hot hot hot all week, which has meant lots of watering although only on the small things.  Everything else has to take their chance, including the new grass seed in the front garden which is a bit of a pity.  I have watered it a couple of times, but it will come up eventually and if it doesn’t then a top up on Autumn will do the job I am sure.

 

Beans - only planted them a couple of days ago so no show as yet: 

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Rhubarb - needs picking, we have made some pies from it already:

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Tayberry - this is a new one this week.  One of the fruit bushes that we got reduced from Woolworths and it seems to have taken and has new growth on it:

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Wild Strawberries - some nice little flowers and some small green strawberries starting to show.  That and the two plants are now multiplying like it is going out of business:

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Blackcurrents - this is the third or fourth year (I forget) and this year the bush never got pruned and so it is really looked after itself.  Mind you, a good growth of flowers appearing:

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Sunflowers - the ones that started it all.  These are no four weeks old and no more slug problems after using pellets.  They are well on their way outside while a couple more are just starting to show inside (to replace the slug eaten ones) as well as two planted directly outside showing now too:

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Potatoes - I managed to get a couple more off freecycle, so now we have four seed potatoes in the pot.  The existing ones the growth was about an inch above the soil, so I have now topped it up with more soil.  The next time I have to do this, it will be at the top:

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Grass - don’t be fooled by the photo, it is actually quite patchy and the hot sunny weather has not helped at all.  Mind you, it does look like it is meant to be there and from a distance is a nice carpet of green. It is meant to rain tomorrow:

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Tomatoes: now repotted and outside:

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Chillies - now repotted outside.  The stones are to keep them upright:

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Clematis is growing very well, about an inch or more per day.  It will soon be up to the wire and off along the fence:

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Amaranthus - I really need to read up on what to do with these:

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Basil - growing nicely and time to repot them I think:

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Cress - more luck this second time and half of it eaten, yum:

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Mini Sunflowers - ready to plant outside:

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Sweetpeas - every single seed seems to have done something which is fantastic:

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Salad - still growing but very slowly, and little bits of it dieing too, not doing too well.  I think we will put some seed outside at sometime:

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May 8, 2008

@Three Weeks

STeve @ 10:40 pm

We are certainly in business now.  Sunflowers have been outside for a week and while we have lost three of them, the remaining ones are still going.   We have planted a couple of new ones straight into the ground and are awaiting them to appear, we still need to plant one indoors and then we would have had replaced all the ones the slugs had.   We are using slug pellets now.

Potatoes showed above the soil this week and have now been buried under a load of new compost on top.  We will keep an eye on them and keep topping them up until the soil is at the top of the pot.  A long way yet to go.

Grass in the front is doing really well, we have had some warm days with sun and rain.  These last days it is been solid sunshine and so tonight has been my first evening of watering it, with a watering can(!) - it takes about four goes but gets the main bits drenched in a bit of water.

 

Sunflowers:

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Potatoes:

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Grass:

May 08 

Salad is growing slowly.  I think a bit of over watering at one time as killed one or two plants, but we are starting to have some nice looking baby salad leaves:

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Sweet Peas are coming up!!!  This is fantastic.  The seeds are from sweet peas that we got off family from Cornwall last year and we saved some of the seeds:

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Sunflowers:

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Basil is doing fine.  I think I need to repot them now, so I have that on my list to do:

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Chillies.  Our of four, two have really got going whereas a third one has yet to develop any leaves, I don’t know if it will now.  The fourth…. it is still somewhere not yet appeared:

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Cress is much more of a success second time around.  Less watering and it is looking good - ready to eat infact:

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Amaranthus is in need or repotting now I think!

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Tomatoes certainly in need of repotting!!

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April 27, 2008

Potatoes Planted

STeve @ 7:51 pm

Not much to see, but they are now planted, possibly a bit late as everywhere I went to look they had sold out of seed potatoes weeks ago.   In the end, freecycle came to the rescue with two potatoes, so this year just one container of potatoes and we will see how it goes.

Last year we filled the containeres mostly full of compost and planted the potatoes.  This year, just a small bit of compost in and each time we see the shoots pop up we will add more compost until it reaches the top.  This should then give us a much better crop, we will see….

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