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My objective this week is to provide an update on the vegetables that are in the pipeline. Firstly however, I would like to apologise to everyone who missed out on microgreens last week. They cooked before they had the chance to germinate! You will be relieved to know that this weeks offering is looking very promising. Unfortunately, I also lost my sowings of swede and sprouts for the second time 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Secondly, before we start, I should also let you know that the Saltde

A relatively short blog today you'll be pleased to hear I wanted to report back on my three experiments that I was working on. 1) Hanging baskets What a beauty eh?!! Unfortunately that is one of the baskets that I made a couple of years ago These are some of the baskets that I made this year that are only fit for going on the compost heap The reason that these haven't worked is simple; I was trying to do too much, and more specifically to try and cram too much into the polytu

Can you believe it?!!! Awarded to a company that sells food which is covered in dirt! But it really is us, look... We are required to be registered as a food provider with the council, even though we are a primary producer, and we received our rating this week following our inspection the previous week. I had to complete a questionnaire when we first registered which covered things such as cleaning, heating, storage, and disinfectants. The answers were all "none" or "N/A", s

Let's start with my highlight of the week. We figured that the early potatoes should be ready by now, and pulled one to take a look That was such a brilliant feeling to see the healthy potatoes underneath!! We like to ensure that our customers are getting good quality, and about 3 hours later we had the taste control session. A bit of mint and shed loads of butter.... The next picture of the leftovers speaks for itself. They were absolutely blooming marvellous! So we have a v