Tag: September

  • Holidays are Coming, Tis the Season for Xmas Potatoes

    Holidays are Coming, Tis the Season for Xmas Potatoes

    Imagine sitting down to the dinner table at Christmas, with your homegrown potatoes roasted in the oven and on the dinner plate? It’s so fulfilling that you will have achieved growing these potatoes (started in late summer). Your family will be overjoyed with smiles as they can’t wait to try your freshly harvested potatoes and…

  • Growing Butternut Squash in a Large Pot & Harvest Top Tips

    Growing Butternut Squash in a Large Pot & Harvest Top Tips

    This year has been a great year for squashes and pumpkins. Another new vegetable for this year was a Butternut Squash as I’ve not ever grown one before. We had no room in the raised beds so decided to experiment to see if two plants would grow in a large patio pot instead. The plants…

  • And Finally we have Sweetcorn to Harvest

    And Finally we have Sweetcorn to Harvest

    If you are a regular to my blog, you may have read my Sweetcorn – Try, Try Again post. We didn’t have much success growing sweetcorn the last time we tried. This year, with the new vegetable garden we put in late in the year, we had no choice but to buy plug plants to…

  • Red, Yellow, Orange and Green Tomatoes are here

    Red, Yellow, Orange and Green Tomatoes are here

    The tomato plants were slow to get growing this year and never really reached a great height but finally the red tomatoes are here. We are growing a few different varieties this year but the Crimson Crush F1 which are blight resistant tomatoes have come through as a clear winner on the size of the…