Harvesting New Potatoes – change in 2 weeks?
Rachel harvests a 30L tub of International Kidney (Jersey Royal) early potatoes to look at the growth of the tubers in a 2 week period of (mainly) rain.
Harvesting new potatoes grown in 30L pots
Today Rachel harvests the first tub of new #potatoes. We grow all our potatoes in 30L pots and demonstrate the technique we have used to support the crop.
How to plant potatoes in 30L pots for great yields
Potato Gnocchi
Gnocchi is a great way to use leftover mashed potato. It is simple and quick to make. We also make gnocchi with other veg including beetroot, tomato, squash/pumpkin or carrot. See here for a recipe using butternut squash.
Christmas at the Allotment
Snow at the Allotment – Christmas 2009 Home-grown veggies for the perfect Christmas Dinner, using your garden to decorate your home, the gift of growing, what to put on your your list to Santa and how to escape the chaos for a bit of allotment time. Here is Don’t Crop Me Now’s guide to a perfect Christmas at the Allotment!
An August weekend on the allotment
From August onwards it can be very busy both on the plot and in the kitchen as the efforts move towards cropping and storing our harvests. However, we are still thinking about second cropping and we have planted out a few of the later crops we sowed a couple of weeks ago in the greenhouse. We found the very first signs of blight on our spuds – see what we did to save the crop and keep prepare the potatoes for storage. We also harvested our onions, enjoyed the wildlife and made a few preserves – we are always busy at Don’t Crop Me Now!
Do you share your allotment produce?
We often have excess produce and like to share with family and friends. I work with people with Chronic lung conditions and my colleagues have been happy to take eggs and veggies from my allotment in exchange for fund raising towards the great work of the British Lung Foundation.
We have also donated produce to Mad Dogs Homeless Project who provide meals to the homeless and a local neurological rehabilitation charity BASIC.
There are some great projects all over the country where allotmenteers use their produce to support charitable work.
Please share your examples and let’s celebrate!Harvesting potatoes grown in 30 litre tubs.
With the possibility of blight in the coming week, we check the potatoes growing in one of the containers.