Monthly Archives: September 2011

Feeding ourselves

>As things started to grow and others ripened we were able to have about 10 meals in total this year from our allotment.

I came up with cheesy sweet peas, potatoes and tomatoes
white sauce with potatoes, peas and tomatoes
baked potatoes in butter and with peas
and of course salads as the lettuce was ready, we had two crops of lettuce giving us lots of salads!
Now with all these potatoes we’ve put in, our winter should be nice and filled with Javlin Potatoes which we think we had over the summer and really enjoyed them.
So we put in I think six bags of potatoes which hopefully will give us enough to keep us going and not have to be there in the middle of winter digging up potatoes! I know they are a Christmas crop, but does that mean we have to dig it up at christmas?

Picked & Eaten Food.

Well we had tried to grow potatoes in the tyres and out of three sets only one tyre set worked :( We also put in about five sets into the ground and they all produced quite well. We have a christmas set in of Javelin