2010 Fruit

So, we've been wanting some fruit as well as veg.

From Ayletts yesterday we bought:-

An 8 pack of Autumn Bliss raspberries £15.99
A Victoria rhubarb for £4.99

From Burston yesterday we bought:-

A Cox' Orange Pipping apple tree trained and caned into a flat fan shape for £54.99 but unfortunately we couldn't quite fit it into the car so have had to pay an extra £20 for delivery.

Today we popped to Poundland (looking for some cheap pansies to give temporary colour to the front bed until we get the front garden re-done later this year). Didn't find any but did buy 1 each of:-

Rubus idaeus raspberry
Rubus tayberry
Ribes Uva-crispa gooseberry (a dark red variety)

For £1 each!

Pete and M-A have planted all the above out this weekend (except 3 of the 8 pack of raspberries as M-A is taking one and my mum is having the other 2).

Carrot Love!

We ended up leaving the carrots in the ground far too long, what with the snow and our inherent laziness! But we decided we'd better harvest them (and the parsnips) before we left for the Falklands at the end of January, incase they ended up rotting in the ground.

We got kilos and kilos of both!

Here are a pair of giant entwined carrots:

2010 Seeds

Just been to Ayletts for our 2010 seeds:

We have:-

Potatoes: Home Guard and Red Duke of York for earlies and Rooster and Pentland Dell for main crops (£3.15 for about 35 in total)
Leeks: Musselburgh Improved (£1.99)
Lettuce: Chartwell (£2.19)
Gherkin: Diamant F1 (£2.19)
Sweetcorn: Honey Bantam F1 (£2.89)
Courgette: One Ball F1 (£3.40)
Carrots: Supreme Chantenay Red Cored (£1.89)
Tomatoes: Sungold F1 (£2.99), Super Marmande (£1.89) and Harbinger (Free)
Sugarsnap Peas: Sugar Ann (£2.49)
Peppers: Golden Bell F1 (Free)
Purple Sprouting Broccoli: Extra Early Sprouting Rudolph (Free)

Almost the End...

Despite everything being under snow for a big chunk of January, we're still managing to pull some crops out.

Today, we finally dug up all the remaining carrots and parsnips, to be chopped up and kept in the freezer. We managed 3.5kg of (uncut) parsnip and 7.5kg of (uncut) carrot. Considering we only had a couple of short rows of each, that seems a pretty good yield!

Main crop potatoes harvested

And yielded 15 kilos!