Doug B
Shy Tot
Super impressed with your squash Doug. I cannot imagine getting through that amount of veg. We have an allotment sized kitchen garden as part of our garden and I struggle with my wife's production of stuff (I am the cook). We seemingly art random get about 40 courgettes, hundreds of tomatoes, sacks of green beans and so on. Soon she will proudly present me with lots of marrows. They are massive and taste of nothing really. But when I ask for some Basil, which I use constantly, she has run out. Her carrots are invariably deformed, and the spuds this year have been small and green skinned.
Not fully convinced that growing the stuff is cheaper or better than our local Waitrose. This week she had two lorry loads (yes - lorry loads) of manure dumped and her poor parents had to barrow it to the designated spots. It took 2 days. She has not admitted how much the manure cost but I think it is £70 a lorry load. Good stuff though.
Strange with the potatoes, the green is usually that daylight has got to them as they’ve become uncovered, we’ve had a bumper crop of tattles some really big ones. I grew 10, 18’ rows & they made nearly 8 bags.
I don’t know what’s infested my leaks this years but they’ve got maggots in them so rather than let them over winter I’ve had to dig them up but we’ve still managed to salvage plenty of usable leaks.
I try my best to be organic so make my own compost rather than use farmyard manure in fact I spend very little for the returns we get, it certainly saves us a fair amount on the shopping bill.