What more Tatties?
After planting the last long bed, I had a few more potatoes to plant. Using double bed bases, upcycled by wrapping in black weed fabric to unify the look, I filled them with 5 wheelbarrow loads of compost and planted the ‘last’ of the…
Bricks ‘n Beer
Today was hard graft. the poly tunnel trench was redug where the plastic cover had lifted, the cover retentioned and the trench filled (properly this time). I then used the budza (adz) to plant two beds of potatoes. I also made some cool plant…
Bloody Wind
The wind managed to lift a part of the poly tunnel cover. It’s my own fault because I should have added more weight in trench while I had the chance. The extended potato beds are filled and I’ve laid out the main crop potatoes….
Potato Bed No 4
The first delivery of mushroom compost seemed to take about two weeks to arrange. The second load was delivered on the same day. Just shows what giving away cookies can do. After two loads of bricks about a metric ton, half the compost, delivered…
Potato Planting
Two beds of potatoes have been planted. I used an adz, or a budza as it is called in Zim, to make light work of planting potatoes. The two beds took roughly 4 bags of potatoes. I’ll need three more beds the same size…
Pot and tools
Over a cup of tea, the number of Ray’s tomatoes came up and the fact I did not want to buy any more plastic pots. Bryan has donated, the entire contents of his greenhouse that included oodles of pots, trays, with bespoke tampers and…
The compost arrived
It was tipped at 4:30, and while waiting, I managed to make a few beds using the aptly named ‘Grunters’. Although very heavy, I only need a few to make a bad. I’ll need more cardboard for the potato and the inside beds. IKEA…
Bribery?
By promising a dozen biscuits to the supplier of the mushroom compost, I’ve had a response and the tipper should be here today. Not knowing what time he’s going to arrive, I’ve made them when I got up at 6. Choc chip cookies, a…
Ray’s Tomatoes
Ray has an interesting way of planting tomatoes. He buys cherry tomatoes, not just your average tasteless tomatoes but the delicious and often not just red. After cutting them in half places them face down on compost and waits until they germinate. They need…
Bricks, Plants anD seeds
A classic second early French variety which has been prized for over 70 years for its tasty tubers with a distinctive chestnut flavour. Potato ‘Ratte’ produces long, smooth skinned tubers with white skins and yellow, waxy flesh which does not disintegrate during cooking. Delicious…