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A little harvest for this evenings feed.

No piccies, but was harvesting fruit at the weekend - strawberries, redcurrants, gooseberries & jostaberries - with courgettes, spinach, broccoli last night for tea & a few tomatoes and mini-cucumbers ready in the greenhouse

Again, no pics, but currently eating Swiss Chard, French Beans, Tatties, Kale, Lettuce, Radish, Sorrel, loads of herbs. Beetroot ready and eating occasionally.

Ready not eaten yet - Cucumber, Cauliflower and Broccoli.

Just about to start planting for Winter - new potatoes for Christmas, Kale & Turnip. Garlic for next year.

Raspberries, Blackcurrant and Strawbs just about finished - had first apples as part of breakfast fruit mix yesterday.

Grapes and Olives coming on, Figs (and a really good year) should be ready in a couple of weeks. Hopefully tomatoes ready soon too - everything is outside.

Off the back of Nowty's idea early in the year with tattie planters I thought I'd see what I could grow with a few tattie bags and a muckabucket full of compost.

Tatties from seedstock from our own growing. About season 5 I think. Compost from our own making. Tatties bags and buckets ftom SWMBO gardening shed Surprised to find that we pulled about 10 kilos of tatties out!

Also collected our varied chilli's, washed of aphids and will be frozen.

Sadly one of the large branches on one of our three apple trees sheared off under weight of fruit.
Harvested the lot from that tree, maybe 20kgs? Will clean, slice and freeze in bags for thought the Winter.

Hoping to get about 50kgs of tatties out the beds and the same from the remaining two apple trees.

The plum tree, Rhubarb and garlic are looking good too.

Friday afternoon's trip to the veg patch

Another crop from second apple tree. A couple being kept back for baked apples and ice cream this evening. The rest will be chopped and frozen for Winter.

Onion crop, usually suffices us until mid winter.


Debateable whether they are worth growing as so cheap in supermarkets and I cannot tell any quality difference. But they are so easy to grow and gives you a bit of "The Good Life" nostalgia.

One of my grandfather's had an allotment and the other just grew what he could in his back yard in pots. They are all long gone now but the memories still stick in my head.

A very nice lady in Blackburn Aberdeenshire sold me four large Rhubarb plants for £15. Turned over a composter, howked out the tatties therein and then forked over the Rhubarb site. Check the tatties that came out, that's about 5% of the tattie beds!

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About 10kgs of homegrown compost for each plant and about 1 mtr apart.

Good pickings at the weekend, lots of things still producing weel, and cooking apples ready

Started harvesting the Victoria plums. 20mins at 80 degs in the big oven and the stones squidge right out. Bag up the fruit and freeze it for Winter crumbles. Happy days!