Showing posts with label Potato 'Romano'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Potato 'Romano'. Show all posts

Saturday, October 03, 2009

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# 1631# 1630# 1629Total Allotment Time: 2¼hrs.
Principle Tasks: 'Rolling' the rye in veg bed 02 using a plank of wood. Digging the last five 'Romano' potatoes.

Friday, October 02, 2009

Total Allotment Time: 20mins
Principle Task: Lifting 2 'Romano' potato plants. Scabby though usable tubers.

Nb. Only an unplanned visit today so no camera again.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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# 1606# 1605Total Allotment Time: 2 & 1/4hrs.
Principle Tasks: Digging up the three rosemary bushes in veg bed 03 that I took as cuttings, replanting one in the border L-bed. Digging five 'Romano' potatoes. Removing the last of the globe artichokes from veg bed 04. Watering.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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# 1551# 1550# 1549Total Allotment Time: 2 & 3/4hrs.
Principle Tasks: Digging one 'Romano' potato. Picking 'Tiny Tim' tomatoes. Adding self-sown courgette/marrow plant to compost pit (it had fatally succumbed to mildew). Lifting 'Rumba' onions. General weeding and watering.

Thursday, April 09, 2009

Breaking Buds 2009!

# 1405A week or so into the new season for the whitebeam.

# 1404The first of the potatoes (Variety 'Maris Bard') are up in veg bed 3. Seen here being mulched.

# 1403Down the other end of the bed the last go in. Another new try, 'Romano' (Main crop).

# 1402Also the last to go in. Onion 'Sturon' in vb02

Total Allotment Time: 3hrs.
Principle Tasks: Planting out the last of the potatoes and onions. Mulching the gate end of vb03.

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