Archive for January, 2009
Replanting the Veggie Patch
My patches are looking a little bare right now after all the harvesting these part couple of weeks. Thankfully my Mother-in-Law has given me a bag of seed potatoes and I have been growing a few seeds of my own. Read the rest of this entry »
The First Harvest
Last May is when I started building and planting out my two veggie patches with spring and summer produce. I can’t describe the feeling of excitement of watching these seedlings grow week by week, the anticipation of how big the potatoes and carrots were getting under the soil, and whether I should just leave it one more week so they might be just that little bit bigger! OK, I’ve gone a little crazy since growing my own, but there is no feeling like that of new life after hours of hard graft in soil preparation, of feeding and watering, staking and bug spraying (with white oil of course!), and then the time comes to plunge the fork into the ground, lift up the soil and see your harvest sitting their in all its full glory. Read the rest of this entry »