Friday, April 06, 2007

The Last Spud

Last weekends Saturday dinner, kindly cooked by the mother in law whilst we were busy with other projects, saw us consume the last of the product of last years "lazy beds".

Below is a picture of the harvest of one of the 3 types we planted. All in all they all kept very well in our basement food store, and I am very pleased that we have not had to buy a single spud for the best part of 9 months.

The last Onion was consumed during our dramatic winter holiday , again you can see part of the harvest in the photo (in the sack). These also kept excellently so we'll be growing even more this year. Need to get some garlic in as well, I've missed out on that for the last two years.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

CONGRATULATIONS ON THE YIELD YOU GOT FROM SPUDS AND ONIONS. In our experience, we always get LESS potatoes and onions than we plant. How did you do it?

Viking Longship said...

A copious quantity of manure combined with the lazy bed technique (see my post from last year, link in this post).

With all your uncultivated land I can highly recommend some lazy beds this year to get things under way.