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The potatoes were earthed up for the first time today.

Earthing up

1 June, 2012 by Stonehead 0 Comments

About two-thirds of our potatoes have finally come through, enabling me to earth them up for the first time today. The long, cool and overcast spring make it unlikely we’ll have new potatoes to eat at the end of this month or even before mid-July but, fingers crossed, we hope to lift first ones in […]

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First potato shoot emerges

23 May, 2012 by Stonehead 2 Comments

It’s late, but the first potato shoot has emerged in the vegetable patch. The cool, wet spring weather has set growth back several weeks, but three days of sunshine and warmer temperature have given the plants a kick start. Now for the rest of them.

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Caution: Garden gnome at work. The OH helps with planting out.

Planting out at last

21 May, 2012 by Stonehead 6 Comments

With the weather finally starting to warm up and the sun breaking through, the Other Half and I have started planting out. Normally, we’d sow the seeds of early germinating, cool climate plants, such as lettuce and some brassicae, in late March or early April. At the same time, we’d sow the seeds of less […]

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Horseradish, mud, rain and a feral bloke: not the most tempting combination!

Anyone for horseradish?

10 May, 2012 by Stonehead 5 Comments

I spent most of the day working outside in rain, sleet, wind and cold. Not surprisingly, by late afternoon I found myself thinking of warming food. I looked down and realised I was right next to the horseradish bed. Excellent. I dug up a large handful of roots to be processed and bottled. I’ll set […]

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Growing Jerusalem artichokes

27 April, 2012 by Stonehead 12 Comments

A couple of years after we moved on to the croft, we visited a family who live near Alford to collect a wheeled hoe and a pair of wheeled cultivators. While there, they presented us with plastic bag filled with loose soil and a score of odd-looking, nobbly tubers. ‘They’re Jerusalem artichokes,’ was the response […]

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