vegetables

We saw a post on Stone Croft Skye recently (a blog that we follow) that inspired me to pickle some of our F1 mini cucumbers that have been prolific in…

Join us in the vegetable garden for a mid-summer tour as we harvest onions, shallots, courgettes and the first of our peas and cucumbers. Given that the growing season was…

It’s been three weeks since our vegetable seeds went into our assortment of coir and wood pulp fibre pots, and I’m really pleased with how things are coming along. We…

Last year was the first time we ever grew our own vegetables on a scale to potentially feed ourselves, and we think it was reasonably successful. More importantly, we gained…

It’s been a successful and fulfilling vegetable growing season for us, and it’s culminated with us harvesting our first ever pumpkins.

We planted our Maris Piper seed potatoes in late April, and we were apprehensive that they would be affected by wireworms. In a bid to reduce wireworm numbers and diminish…

Walk through our vegetable garden and see the progress we’ve made. We’ll have a look at some of the star vegetables of the season and discuss the challenges we have…

The bottom few leaves of our garlic turned yellow a couple of weeks ago, so we headed down the field with a wheelbarrow and pitch fork to harvest garlic for…

Our courgettes in the vegetable garden are currently producing vast quantities of fruit, so we’re going to share our easy-to-make, exceptionally tasty courgette soup recipe with you.

Our veg garden has been doing very well since everything was planted and seeded out in May, but we’ve seen a gradual slowdown in growth that we attributed to a…