Photo: Burgon & Ball
As part of our self sufficientish lifestyle our plan is to grow as much of our food as possible. When we first moved here we had never grown anything from scratch and whilst we had enjoyed gardening at our last house it was more of the see what plant catches our eye at the garden centre variety.
Over the past few years we have gradually increased what we grow. We started by growing potatoes and courgettes and buoyed on by our first years success we haven’t looked back. One thing that we did learn however was to only grow the stuff that we really like. In that first year we had a veritable glut of courgettes and being the only courgette eating person in our household meant that there were quite a few uneaten . My attempt at courgette muffins could not persuade anyone otherwise.
This year we are growing:
Potatoes – First Earlies ‘Home Guard’, Second Earlies ‘Maris Peer’, Maincrop ‘King Edward’ and ‘Kerr’s Pink’
Sweetcorn – ‘Applause’
Dwarf beans
Basil
Corriander
Tomatoes – ‘Olirose’, ‘ Orange Bourgoin’
Carrots – ‘Autumn King’
Beetroot – ‘Boltardy’
Pumpkin – ‘Jack o’ Lantern’
Rhubarb
Rocket
Mixed Salad Leaves
Peppers
Courgettes – ‘Black Beauty’
Spring Onion – ‘Ishikura’
Salsify
We also have permement plantings of:
Apples – ‘Scrumptious’, ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’ and two unknown varieties of dessert apple
Pears – ‘Conference’
Plums -’Victoria’
Strawberries
Raspberries – ‘Autumn Bliss’
Redcurrants – ‘Jonkheer Van Tets’
Blackcurrants – Ben Nevis’
Jeruselem Artichokes
Globe Artichokes
Herbs – Chives, Thyme, Fennel, Bergamot, Sage
We look forward to showing you the results as they appear!
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