Exciting news in our garden this week- we’ve dug up the first of our early potatoes! I can’t wait to try them with some butter and home grown parsley.
This week we’ve (when I say we, I mean my husband) been having a tidy up in the garden to get it looking spick and span for the Spokes ‘n Spades cycle trail at the weekend which is taking in a handful of Stirling’s gardens (for more info go to http://www.cyclestirling.org.uk/events/spokes-and-spades).
Other jobs in the garden this week are:
- Earthing up maincrop potatoes to keep light from the newly developing tubers;
- Cutting and drying herbs while they are at their best;
- Weeding round our brassicas and other plants- this seems like an endless task!;
- Checking if our tomato plant has produced 4 or 5 trusses (bunches) of fruit and if it has, need to pinch out the main growing point to stop the plant growing and encourage fruit ripening;
- Harvesting vegetables as soon as they are ready. This makes the vegetables taste better and we can plant another crop in its place, getting more out of the land.
What are you up to in your garden this week?
