Proof that vegetable growing can be done by anybody. From a couple of under 30s – one who grew up growing and one who has just got going…
We don't know about everyone else, but vegetables seem to come like buses. At times you don't have very many, and then they all seem to come at once! This is exactly what's happening with our herbs at the moment. They have all really got going, but we can't eat them fast enough! And unfortunately,... Continue Reading →
Our cucumber, courgette and cucamelon plants are doing brilliantly. Following a slow start, the cucumber plant is coming on strides now and is much stronger. For a start, it could only support one cucumber at a time, but now it's growing three or four with ease! These are the last two cucumbers that we harvested... Continue Reading →
Having checked on the strawberry runners we potted up a couple of weeks ago, each of these have now rooted into their pot. Therefore, it was time to cut them loose from the parent plant so they can form their own plant. These will just be kept watered now until they have formed their own... Continue Reading →
It was time to harvest the red onions we had been growing in a pot last week. Although they hadn't grown particularly big, their leaves had fallen to one side and they were no longer putting up new centre leaf growth so they were as big as they were going to get! Therefore, we gently... Continue Reading →
The brassicas we sowed and pricked out a few weeks ago are now ready to plant out. We had a few cauliflowers and one broccoli plant to plant out. Dad gave us a bit of his vegetable patch to plant them out in as they need a fair bit of space to grow properly. We... Continue Reading →
