I’m intrigued by the idea of growing more perennial veg. Less sowing, pricking out, thinning. Less work. I’ve written about my adventures with Jerusalem Artichokes – now mercifully eradicated again. I am still trying to keep a Welsh Onion alive for long enough to explore its possibilities. But I have discovered that I love Oca….
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This was the first year for a long time that didn’t start with buying way too many seeds for edibles. It was also a year in which I didn’t start February by making too-early sowings of the latest tomatoes and chillies I had decided to try. Fortunately I managed to lift my head above the…
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I love this time of year. Increasing temperatures and light levels mean everything is shooting up, and finally the kitchen garden is really springing in to life again. I am still not entirely sure how the L-shaped bed in the foreground came to be proudly sprouting Jerusalem Artichokes (Fuseau) and First Early Potatoes (Cherie). Well,…
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The first major change we made to the garden when we moved here last year was to set up the beginnings of a kitchen garden at one end. By December 2012 we had built 4 raised beds and filled them with compost, and I started ordering seeds and dreaming. I was so excited about the…
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It seemed like such a good idea at the time. We’d been trying to get a new kitchen fitted since last October. Some things are noteably harder to get sorted living on a relatively remote Island, as compared to living within 6 miles of a major city as we did before. Anyway, having finally found…
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