Get a room full of keen veg-growers together at this time of year, and sooner or later you can guarantee the talk will turn to whether or not you chit your potatoes. It’s one of those pieces of wisdom that’s handed down unquestioned from gardener to gardener through the ages: when your seed potatoes arrive, you stand them [...]
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The eyes have it
Posted in Allotments, Greenhouse growing, Storing, sowing, tagged chitting, potatoes, sowing on February 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The spud game
Posted in Allotments, Harvesting, Storing, tagged potatoes on September 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »
(to be viewed while listening to the Tra-la-la song by the Banana Splits… which will only be familiar to those of a certain age. I could have put the soundtrack on here but decided not to drive you [...]
To blanch, or not to blanch?
Posted in Storing, tagged beans, blanching, cooking, gluts, preserving crops on September 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I am currently working my way through mountains of beans. Every three days I pick a whole carrier-bag full. What’s really worrying me is that this is only half what I’m going to be getting in a couple of weeks’ time: my late-sown bean plants are just starting to get under way now. When they’re [...]
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