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Planting Our First Crop of Potatoes

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

planting_chitted_potatoesFinally today we were planted our first crop of vegetables in our rabbit proof vegetable patch! How exciting is that!! :) Already looking forward to eating the results!

We have got a number of varieties to plant including Maris Piper and King Edwards. We are also going to plant the non-raised beds with pots to help break up the soil and help keep the weeds down. I think we counted 86 seed potatoes in total…so I think we shall be setting up a road-side stall with ‘Waterloo Farm Potatoes’ later in the year! ;)

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British Sugar Supplies Raised Beds Top Soil

Sunday, April 18th, 2010
British Sugar Top Soil

British Sugar Top Soil

Having made the raised beds we now needed to fill them up, easy you might think! However, using a number of online topsoil calculators we discovered that to fill all 10 of our raised beds we would need over 20 tons … eeekk!

After looking around at local Norfolk topsoil suppliers we realised that a delivered ‘per ton’ price was coming out at over £70, so doing the maths this was going to cost over £1,400!!! However, a useful friend recommended that we contact British Sugar. British Sugar you might ask?! Well, every year they have a surplus of top grade arable land topsoil produced as a by-product of the sugar beet production process.

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Making the Raised Beds

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Large Raised Bed (pre-dropping)

Large Raised Bed (pre-dropping)

Having marked out the vegetable patch and sussed out that it would all fit (we even re-configured the layout to get a few more beds in) we have started to make our raised beds. Fortunately we have an ‘old-fashioned’ wood yard up the road where we sourced our pressure-treated wood.

We ordered 12 ft x 6in (3.6m x 15cm)  lengths, which meant that when we cut those into thirds we could use the lenghts for the end panels. For 2010 we are only planning to make 2 large and the 2 small (wedge shaped) raised beds. So the large beds will be 3.6m long, by 1.2m wide by 30cm high and there will eventually be 8 in total!

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Rabbit Proof Vegetable Patch!

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Rabbit Proof Vegetable Patch

Rabbit Proof Vegetable Patch

We are very excited that at last we have the start of our vegetable patch! If you regularly follow out blog you will know that the Wildlife likes to strike back, so we have had to create Fort Knox to stop the fluffy bunnies (!) thinking we have created them a handy larder-cum-restaurant.

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Grow-your-own Butternut Squash

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Butternut SquashYou may remember that I have been trying to grow some veg without a proper veg patch this year (see here for previous posts on the subject)! Well, I recently harvested my butternut squash and thought you’d like to see them. In the end I had only 2 fruits (off a single plant), but those 2 have done OK and, for my first attempt and considering they were grown in an old sink (!), I’m pretty chuffed! (more…)

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