In our garden
Digging for potatoes
A fun job that we all look forward to, pulling up the potato plant and then using our hands to find “buried treasure”. Each year it’s a highlight for all. This year the older children we used some of the…
Sunshine in a berry
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We have been watching the strawberry bed, they start off green, turn pink, and after what can seem like a long wait, they turn bright red. Picking after lunch, bathed in the sun, they taste sweet, warm and a bit…
Pulling up onions
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It was such a long time ago that we planted out the small onion sets, today it was time to pull them up. They were no longer small, some were really large. They didn’t take much pulling to get them…
Hot days, plenty of watering
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Not only to we need to drink lots of water during this hot weather, the vegetables need to drink too. Good job we have plenty of willing helpers to keep them watered and growing.
Potato flowers?
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Who knew potatoes flowers were such a thing, and who knew they looked so pretty?
Podding broad beans
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When we planted the beans they were just small seedlings and we have watched them grow tall, we saw the white flowers and finally we saw bean pods. We picked some off today, giving them a little twist as we…
Picking radish
It seems like only the other week we sowed radish seed, we have been picking them in the morning for our lunch.
Trip to the garden centre
We needed to water some of the seeds we had sown but we didn’t have a watering can. It was a nice sunny day so we walked over to the garden centre and came home with our new watering can,…
Planting potatoes
Our potatoes have been chitting for a while, today we dug holes and popped them in the ground. We covered them over with soil and now we just wait. We’ll check on their progress each week.
Seed potatoes, not potato seeds…
We learnt that you have to plant potatoes to make more potatoes, but before you do that you can give them a bit of help by letting them grow tubers. We have our seed potatoes and have put them on…