Dinner from the garden!

Really could not wait any longer to see if the potatoes had grown!

Now, I had 4 squares of potatoes, 3 were some French salad potatoes and 1 contained Icelandic red potatoes. Today I felt around in one of the French squares and found no French spuds but some Icelandic ones seemed to have encroached into that square. So, I grubbed out six potatoes for dinner. Not bad! The French ones may be deeper, I'll have to look into that.


I pulled up 4 carrots too, all Amsterdam Sprint. They were great, very sweet and certainly long enough.

Belated update

Here are pictures taken on July 12th, when I returned from holiday. It all looked fine and my daughter did a good job looking after it :-)















And today I pulled up some carrots to see how they are doing. The one on the left is a bit twisted and is Amsterdam 3 Sprint. The other two are Nantes 2. The carrot tops all look healthy enough so I will just let them grow a bit longer I think.

















The broccoli has done very well. I'm not sure about the flavour, it is a bit stronger than the usual calabrese. It does, however, give a steady crop over a longer time I think. We ate some tonight (see picture) and there are more small heads to come.

Two weeks later

Just wanted to update this as a record of how things are growing. The weather has been warm (12°C plus) but grey and some rain showers. There is one spear of broccoli so far - looks rather lonely there and I am keeping an eye on it so I will pick it before it flowers. Hope that more come then.

All over!

Slight exaggeration there :-)

We have had quite a lot of spinach and beetroot leaves over the last couple of weeks. I am really happy with both of those. The spinach had begun to flower so I picked the last lot of leaves two days ago, and today I pulled up the plants and sowed more seeds.

I also cut the beetroot leaves off and brought them in for a last crop. Then I pulled those out too and sowed more "mixed salad". Last time only the beetroot came up (although there are now tiny seedlings of what might be celery leaves)so it will be interesting to see what happens now it is a bit warmer.

I also put in a pre-sown disc of coriander; there should be time for that to come up.

Everything else is doing pretty well. I've been keeping it all covered over but I think I'll start leaving the covers off during the day unless we get bad weather. One of the broccoli plants has a tiny head forming so perhaps not long until there is something to pick there.

First salad of the summer!

Yum yum!
Spinach, beetroot leaves, chives, melissa and thyme (going to put some of the herbs in an omelette).

Snip, snip!

I try to remember to water the square gardens every day since it has been dry here. I give each garden a whole watering can of tepid water.

Today I thinned the carrots by snipping off at ground level the extra seedlings.

I also put a strip of wood down the side of the potato squares so I can add a bit more compost and give them the full depth of the box.

My mother in law sent a root of rhubarb this week. I shoved it in the veg garden and am watering it frequently to see if it will perk up a bit. If not, I expect it will be fine next year.

Planting plan

Forgot to post the planting plan so here it is :-)