After a long cold winter and a poor spring we have
eventually started to see some decent plant growing weather settle in for a
while and the veggies in the garden are responding to the warmer temperatures
providing us with some long awaited produce. We have dug all of the potatoes up
even though they might have grown larger because the plants have been raided by
a badger - we think (the clumsy brute has done as much damage by stomping
through the crops as it did from digging up the tubers).
We had some early beans a while back and are now on to
the main crops, also we have raised our onions and garlic with mixed results –
the red onions are always a struggle with their tendency to bolt and the garlic
suffered a little with the wet weather, some of it rotting off, but the white
onions and shallots did quite well.
We have high hopes for the squashes and pumpkins that
seem to now be doing well, and the new greenhouse is full of healthy looking
tomatoes, chillies and even a few exotics such as a watermelon a regular melon
and a couple of cape gooseberries.
We have enjoyed a couple of meals now where all of our
veggies came from the garden including a roast on the weekend that included various
types of beans, carrots, chard, broccoli and cauliflower, courgette and
potatoes.
Costing up the price of the seeds, compost, tools and
other materials used without even considering the labour effort we are never going
to see a commercial return for our work, but in terms of the rewards in the satisfaction
of growing and serving friends with our hand reared food, and the exercise we
gain, then we are quids in.
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