Easter Egg Hunt

Had a great weekend with our friends – had 22ish people around for lunch today and the adults got a bit over competitive during the easter egg hunt.

Potato Harvest

Our potatoes are ready at last! After a false alarm of thinking they hadn’t flowered Lucy dug them up this afternoon with pretty spectacular results.  Reuben was keen to assist as well. We harvested 1.5kg (3.3lb) of new potatoes – we look forward to trying them with dinner tomorrow evening.

Growth!

It’s been a while since we last blogged. Before we get down to business let’s have a potato update. We had a good bit of growth on our spuds over the last month, we’ve covered them with soil and then practically overnight they shot up! Just waiting for the next stage then hopefully we will [...]

Potato Update

It’s  been three weeks since we planted the potatoes and lettuce and they are looking good!!

Potatoes and Lettuce

We’ve started growing Potatoes and Lettuce in pots. We’re quite excited about getting to eat something we grow! We’ve also planted? the Hydro Globe Keith and Sue gave us for Christmas – I think we need more of these as we are useless at remembering to water our plants! We’ll keep you posted on all potato [...]

More mushrooms

Ok so you may well be sick of hearing about our mushrooms but after they first started appearing through the soil there was no stopping them. In a couple of days they were both very big and lots of them – look at our final harvest!  From the above into a birthday bacon butty and [...]