Category Archives: Vegetable Gardening

My successes and failures growing my own vegetables.

Harvesting and rain is the current position.

Posted on July 19, 2009 by daveyboi

Still managing to keep up with eating the courgettes just. Also harvesting the broad beans, beetroot, lettuce and peas as required. Continue reading →

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Harvesting the container potatoes

Posted on July 12, 2009 by daveyboi

Today I decided to see how well the potatoes in the crate had done as they were starting to die back a little. As you can see from the pictures the outcome of the crop. Continue reading →

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Heat wave hits us and watering is the main pastime!

Posted on July 5, 2009 by daveyboi

Saturday I made some strawberry jam from the strawberries I found on Friday. I got two jars and a little left over. Continue reading →

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Cheeky Mouse adds insult to injury!

Posted on June 28, 2009 by daveyboi

On Monday I found seven strawberries ready to be picked that the mouse must of missed. However on Tuesday the cheeky mouse had found another ripe one and to add insult to injury had dragged it on top of the mouse trap to eat it!! Continue reading →

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The Produce is starting to arrive now.

Posted on June 24, 2009 by daveyboi

I missed my weekly update last week mainly because the main activities of sowing and planting out are nearly at an end for this season now. I have again decided against cropping through the winter in order to allow time to try and improve the soil and level the whole vegetable patch out better. Continue reading →

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First courgette ready!

Posted on June 14, 2009 by daveyboi

It has been a pretty quiet week this week. Nice weather has kept me watering and feeding the containers and the patch in general. Along with some weeding really makes up most of the week. Continue reading →

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Pottering around the veggie patch

Posted on June 8, 2009 by daveyboi

With the start of June it is now a case of looking forward to some produce from the vegetable patch at last. On Monday I sowed some of the free trial lettuce seeds I had received with my seed order from D T Brown. Continue reading →

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End of May and the veggies are growing well.

Posted on May 31, 2009 by daveyboi

A update on the veggie patch mainly in pictures this week. Including the first strawberry nearly ready for the breakfast cereal and the peas in the gutters now germinated. Continue reading →

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Planting out and Potting On !

Posted on May 24, 2009 by daveyboi

Potting on the tomatoes. Just to remind you this year I am trying two new varieties to me as well as the Alicante I grew last year. They are both cherry tomatoes and are Sweet Milton and Bejbino Continue reading →

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Potato Blight ?? Surely it is too early in the year!

Posted on May 17, 2009 by daveyboi

On Friday I notice that one row of the early potatoes is lagging well behind the other even though that particular row was the first to appear were both planted together As you can see from the picture a big difference in growth. Could it be the dreaded potato blight hitting this early in the season? Continue reading →

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