Our New Life in the Country: Comparisons

Thursday, 3 June 2010

Comparisons

June 2009

This time last year we had lifted our first crop of new potatoes, looking at the potato plants growing away in the ground, I think we will wait a couple of weeks before we try lifting any of this years babies. The beauty of keeping this Blog/Online Diary is that I can go back and do comparisons, and check our progress from year to year. Seemingly by the end of June we had also lifted the first of our Beetroot, it looks like we planted a different type last year as in the photos they are long and slender, this year we have the little round variety. I spy also in the photo a couple of Spring Onions, well those we do have, and I will be picking some for tea tonight.

June 2009

I must remember to keep adding to the sidebar as we start to eat each of the crops that come to maturity. It's a nice feeling to be going out and choosing our food for tea from the polytunnel and Kitchen Garden.

I hope your crops are growing well, whether you have an allotment, garden or just a couple of pots, there's something SO satisfying about growing, (and eating) your own.

Sue xx

7 comments:

Jan3 June 2010 at 13:57
I've never seen beetroot like those in the photo! Our beetroot are still tiny, and they're very hit and miss here due to our lack of water, but we try!
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Dawn3 June 2010 at 15:36
My veg garden is quite some way behind this time last year, but we have had rhubarb and salad leaves so far. Gooseberries are coming on nicely and the greenhouse is thriving!
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Anne in Oxfordshire3 June 2010 at 18:45
Hi Sue I have never seen long slender beetroot either. Oh it must be wonderful to see the fruits of all your hard work.. Do really well.
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Ro3 June 2010 at 20:20
I gave you a blog award today. You can read about it here:

http://softwindsandroses.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-award.html

Happy Thursday and Happy Blogging! :)
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Esther3 June 2010 at 20:49
Our Red Duke of York potatoes are growing strongly but they went in late this year due to the weather being SO wet. I think they will need a couple more weeks at least though I did notice flowers starting on them today. Last year we dug the first ones just after this. The fruit bushes are getting close to producing though.
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Threadspider3 June 2010 at 21:06
It's a brilliant idea listing what you are eating in the side bar.
My potatoes also need another couple of weeks but the strawberries have started today! Hurray!
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BadPenny4 June 2010 at 08:27
I'm looking forward to my first salad leaves
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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