Although the potato plants are beautiful, is this NOT a braggart? - rather an expression of a certain wonder. For such tall potatoes I have never had before.
These are hidden potatoes, i.a. Ditta, which is laid on April 5th just like I...
2017 is set to be a somewhat strange garden year.
At least in the kitchen garden, where things go a little crazy.
The pointed bowls are sticking, the potatoes are meters high, and now the cauliflowers.
Best as you cut a neat head,...
In mid-June, I had a post with a wonder about my abnormally large potato plants. From the comments it appeared that others had also observed the same thing - especially in the variety Ditta - that the peaks were noticeably higher than normal. And...
Now that there is no room in the fridge for a plug box with freshly sown salad here in the summer heat, a small thermal bag with an ice pack can be just as good a solution when the temperature has to be kept below 20 °. At the same time, you...
As a rule, you want to try to get the most out of the area you have available for the kitchen garden. This is especially true for us of different kinds of cabbage, which we can hardly get enough of, but where the necessary crop rotation often...
Note to self: if you absolutely must water your young leeks in a dry period, then use a spreader! A concentrated jet from the spout of the watering can then breaks the leaves.
I went for a week and pondered what could be wrong until it...