Category Archive: potatoes

May 7th, 2013
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New photos & information

Just added a few new photos and I have new photos of the girls to add on their new pages as well! We still have two un-named girls so I’ll take any ideas for them, I’ll post their photos soon as I can!

Today 7/5 we were able to get a lot of needed weeding done, me sitting on the ground and begging the weeds to come to me so I could pull them out rather then moving to them, and Simon moving all over getting rhubarb and strawberries weeded.

We have Celery, Tomatoes, Sweet Peppers, Cayenne Peppers, Peas, French Beans, and other veggies all planted in the propagators. Thanks to a neighbour we have other tomatoes growing now in their own pots so that they settle and we can get them growing nicely.

And sadly, someone stole my four carrot tubs, emptied the dirt out and stole them off the allotment. Who knows why someone would steal them, they had holes in them, fiberglass broken, no knobs or anything…  Thankfully I saw another way to plant my carrots within the garden with luck and no flies getting to them.

We’re hoping that we get a great crop this year to help supplement the eggs and such. Who knows what will happen, but we can always hope and wish it all grows and maybe we’ll have some great food this summer!

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May 7th, 2013
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Potato crop with chickens in the back ground


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December 20th, 2012
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Long time needed catch-up!

Well now things have changed with the girls BIG time! We have added @roseycosie after the major loss of Cluck-Cluck. Rosie gladly let us use her name for our then newest girl who we still need a photo of I know!

Now we have three more girls! We have two brothers that are mates of our from the allotment site who have been deployed and we took in three of their chickens. Yes I know we need photos of them as well, but they aren’t looking proper as they’re molting and refuse to have their photos taken until spring when all  new feathers have come in and they look chickalous! Their names haven’t really been decided yet because I’ve not been able to spend the time with them like I was able with the first six. But I have some names I’d like to use with them, Mabel, Gretta, and Bird-Brain. It seems that the girls molt during the winter (burrr cold!) so they just wouldn’t look their best so we’ll get their new photos come spring, even new ones of the older girls of ours, because they’re all about the same age. The three new girls will be easy to tell apart, they definitely look different then the others and two are different breeds then our lot. So all we can do is hope they don’t drown or turn into ducks over the winter with all the rain! The new girls had another house put in the run just for them, but from what Si can find out, only two girls are using the new house which is good as not all nine girls are squished in the larger coop.

We also need to start getting out seeds together for the allotment and what we’ll be planting, but as I write this the allotment is a swimming hole due to two days of nothing but rain! Si took photos for me when he went to let the girls out, good thing we now have wellies as if not his feet would be drenched it’s that deep! I hope to try some corn again, spinach (us and the girls), potatoes, peas, rhubarb, our apple trees, and berry bushes, onions, carrots, garlic (trying again this year), broccoli (us and the girls), lettuce (us and the girls), strawberries (US ONLY!) sunflowers for their beauty and then the girls to peck apart again this year, some peppers Green and possibly red and Hot Peppers for the chili, maybe lavender in the tubs again this year, carrots again in the bath tubs, tomatoes, and who knows whatever else we decide or not decide to plant this year.

 

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June 20th, 2012
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What’s been happening lately…

So far the food that’s survived the mice and that I grew at home, we now have some corn, some type of squash, continual spinach, cabbage, flowering purple broccoli, brussel sprouts, tomatoes and popping corncobs.

Most of it is growing, sadly the snails and slugs got to a few plants and ate them whole! This being through egg shells and under containers so they all got fed to the princesses for their nasty deed! Luckily most is growing back and I hope now there are more egg shells and slug and snail repellent is down we’ll be in better shape.  Hopefully everything will grow and we’ll be able to feed the hens aka the princesses and ourselves.

We had planted a large four separate patches of potatoes. We dug up a test patch from our first in and nothing was on the plant, sadly we’re afraid that all our first main crop may have nothing on them as they lived through the rain and hot weather so blight may have gotten the field. We have the other plots of potatoes, we won’t dig any test plants up in them as there aren’t many of them so we can always hope there are potatoes on the plants in the main first crop later into the season.

A friendly man and his wife offered us some plants, flowering purple broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, and tomatoes. We planted a ton of everything in my flower bed since it was the only free bed since the tiller was stolen. So I lost my gardening area and flowers but hopefully it’ll all grow and thrive with lucky and growing care.

Yes, someone broken into our shed and stole our tiller, sadly that means digging plots by hand and Simon sore and his back highly aggravated.  But our next one will be a 5 stroke and taken with us daily if we get one as we’ll be having the whole lot tilled by a neighbour’s mate, so we’ll till it though out the winter minus the apple trees, but hopefully dig up the strawberries for a few more years out of them. so it’s plow the field, rake, plow, rake, and continue all winter this way until we feel all weeds are dug up.

I’ve replanted more carrots in one of the tubs that just wasn’t growing, no idea what kind but I tossed them in and with hope they’ll be winter carrots. I have a medium box full of carrots and a tub full, but more spare seeds for winter carrots for the third tub that’s about half growing, so they may be winter carrots as well with the ones I plant in soon as I’m feeling better.

Currently I’m down, very poorly and not making it to the allotment, but on the plus side I have a nice tan :)

 

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May 28th, 2012
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What Have We Planted Lately??

Now that the winter and rain has passed we are getting our plants in the ground that I have been working on in the greenhouse, that was until I found out I had little visitors who were hungry, MICE! They knocked over a few of my seedling trays and ate the seeds from within my corn, butternut squash and spaghetti squash! Not what I wanted to see as after this they went after the seeds in the greenhouse, eating my sweet corn, spaghetti squash, butternut squash and they tried the brussel sprouts but didn’t like them.

So after scavenging thru the toppled seedling trays for some seeds, I was able to salvage about 15 squash seeds, some sweet corn seeds, but that is all. So I replanted what I saved and what I could find left over, but this time I brought all the seedling trays home to go in one of our greenhouses. At home I just have to worry about Keagan and Baxter but they didn’t seem to care about them luckily.

After about four weeks or so I had some large sprouts growing and knew I had beaten the mice this time!

In total we have a lot of new plants recently, we bought a few tomato plants from the Society’s but sadly they died over night once they were planted, even with newspaper at the root ball for moisture. Out of three plants two died and a dark red tomato plant surrived.

The saved plants are some squash, no idea what kinds but I know five sprouted. After that comes three sweet corn  sprouts, sadly I wish more had sprouted but no more did, but luckily I think I have some more seeds that’ll be sowing into my greenhouse again.

We also planted some strawberry corn. Weird sounding I know but it sounds great on the package! What you do is dry it out and then put in airtight container, and after two months you put them in the microwave, and then eat the popcorn off the cob and what has fallen off the cob. There are about nine of these plants and they’ll be cared for very well, trust us on that one!

And next to last we planted continuing growing spinach, this just keeps growing throughout the year. This is another plant that we’ll be keeping an eye on with the luck of Popeye, we’ll have lots and lots of spinach all the year long and into winter.

Finally we have about 25 brussel sprouts growing for the girls and our landlords, since neither of us eat the sprouts. But it’s amazing how many grew have grown in the greenhouse. I just hope most take and grow because the girls love them!

That’s all the newest plants we have, we’re still growing the potatoes, strawberries, rhubarb, onions, garlic, bathtub carrots and a beautiful Golden Delicious Apple tree. There are also two berry bushes growing nicely, we just hope berries are growing on the bushes so we know what we have.

That’s our allotment at the moment, enjoy reading about our continuing adventures as our 2nd year as allotment owners now with chickens!!

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February 20th, 2012
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>Frost and snow

>Sadly we were hit with both snow and then once that cleared up more frost. All the seedlings Simon planted in the greenhouse died so he’s not going to try that again but hopefully I’ll be able to find a glass greenhouse at a good price and use it on the allotment.

This year we have things better planned out and charted down to the foot! Each new space will be done by the new tiller we’re hoping to get soon. With luck and some good Karma the tiller will be able to be bought soon.
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February 14th, 2012
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>Chitting seed potatoes

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Well we have our seed potatoes happily Chitting away. Getting ready for planting in march when we hope the threat of frost has gone down, and we’ve been able to purchase our new mantis tiller. Hopefully we’ll have a good crop and they’ll taste nice.

Picture shows pur first and second early seed potatoes.


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September 20th, 2011
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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?
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September 18th, 2011
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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

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July 8th, 2011
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>Potato Mole Hills

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Our current Potato Mole Hills as Simon likes to call them. These were all from 2nd planting for the winter. So we’re proud of ourselves that they grew and we didn’t manage to kill them off! The hills are about 10-12 inches high from ground to top of the mounds. There should be a large amount of potatoes and some quite tasty ones at that!!
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