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Mark's Veg Plot
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A blog about gardening, food, cookery, travels and family - specializing in home-grown fruit, vegetables and herbs.
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Harvest Monday - 29th June 2015
This week I picked a couple of batches of Radishes - the first ones of my current sowing. This batch is a mixture of "Cherry Belle" (round) and "Flamboyant 5"... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Flowers of West Green House
Here are the photos of flowers at West Green House that I promised. This is probably my favourite - a rose which I believe is called "Raspberry Ripple". If... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
West Green House Revisited
This week we made another visit to West Green House, near Hartley Wintney. It's only 20 minutes' drive from our house, so we really should go more often, but... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Broad Beans - Are They Ready Yet?
At last, my Broad Beans are ready to harvest (well, a few of them, at least...)My beans were sowed on February 23rd. They are "De Monica", and "Imperial Green... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Runner Beans - More Intelligent Than You Might Think
Many plants have a remarkable ability to adapt to trauma and adverse conditions. Today I want to demonstrate this in respect of the Runner Bean. Read more
Posted on 25 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Netting
Last weekend I re-arranged almost all my netting. Many of the plants had grown so tall that the original arrangements were no longer suitable. Read more
Posted on 24 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Bean Problems
I'm a lover of the bean in any form, so I grow lots of them in my garden. Over the years I have learned through experience (by that I mean Trial and Error) a... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Harvest Monday - 22 June 2015
This past week saw me harvesting the first of my Strawberries.I only have a few Strawberry plants, growing in some plastic crates, so I am never going to get a... Read more
Posted on 22 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Some Colour Begins to Appear
Because vegetables are my chief area of interest my efforts with flowering plants are a bit "sub-optimal". Most of my flowers are Summer ones too. I know this i... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
A Bit of an Update
Today I don't have any specific subject to write about, so I thought I would just give you "a bit of an update"...Lots of the veggies are nearly ready, like... Read more
Posted on 20 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
When Will My Broccoli Be Ready?
Although I am well known for my Purple Sprouting Broccoli, which I grow every year, I have little experience with the "ordinary" (i.e. Calabrese-style) Broccoli. Read more
Posted on 19 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Ashe Park Visit
Jane and I have recently become shareholders in a vineyard! It is a new business formed from the relics of the Wineshare club that we had been members of since... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Blight-resistant Potatoes Update
Some of you may remember that earlier in the year I was kindly given some potato tubers by David Shaw of the Sarvari Trust. They were some of their... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Lettuce Etc...
I think my Salads bed is ample demonstration that you can grow a lot of salad in a small space. Here it is - a 1 metre x 2.4 metres raised bed. Read more
Posted on 16 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Harvest Monday - 15th June 2015
Potatoes are top of the harvest list this week. These ones are the first of the "Winston" variety, a First Early.What you see there is the yield from one seed... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Before and After
The other day I reviewed a recipe book called "A Girl and her Greens" by Alice Bloomfield. This book has already given me a lot of ideas for cooking with... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Chillis - Some Hopeful Signs
Regular readers will know that my chillis got off to a very bad start this year (aphids, poor weather - need I say more?), but I think they have taken a turn fo... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Planting Sweet Potatoes
I have been pondering for a while now where to grow the Sweet Potato plants I have raised from slips. The plants were big enough to go into their final growing... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
Pinching-out and Tying-in
Now that the weather has improved a bit (not a lot!), the tomatoes are beginning to grow (rather reluctantly, I feel.) They had reached the stage where they... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME -
The Cucumbers Go It Alone.
My cucumber plants have grown too big to fit under their cloche any longer, so they have to take their chances with the weather. Read more
Posted on 10 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME