Potatoes Part 2 – Planting out

If, like me, you started chitting your potatoes last month (potatoes part 1), then your seed potatoes are probably starting to look a little bit ugly, all wrinkled with alien like sprouts. If you haven’t got started yet then it isn’t too late, you may have missed the boat for Christmas dinner but you’ll still have a lovely crop later in the summer.

Wrinkly Alien seed potatoes

Faster than the speed of light!

I'm liking this new trend for rain during the week and sunshine at the weekend.  It is very much the opposite of what I am used to!  I've been taking full advantage and the garden looks amazing at the moment.

However, I am getting VERY impatient, I want to start eating things out of the garden again!! At the moment all that it is producing is lettuce and the herbs, which is great because I did miss these over winter, but still lettuce doesn't get you very far.

Tomatoes and sunburn

I had an awesome weekend in the garden, had a good tidy up and got a lot of weeding done … I also got my first sunburn of the 2013/2014 summer, whoops!  The carrot and radish seeds are in the garden finally and I’ve evicted the spare tomato seedlings to make room for more up and coming seedlings.  The handy husband has also been busy, jerry rigging a plastic tray as a shelf in the greenhouse for seedlings to keep the out of the way and building this awesome vertical herb garden on the fence for lettuces and annual herbs.  The cat is not being so helpful, a new game appears to be digging up the non-frilly lettuces or biting and shredding the frilly ones, hence the vertical herb garden and a liberal sprinkling of skunk pellets.

A vertical herb garden