Saturday 10 July 2010

No spuds!

Drought, no watering, and unfertile clay soil equals:

5ft by 30 ft early potato bed.  Should have got 60 kgs from this...

...but got this instead!  We're doomed!

Half a bed of broad beans harvested to make room for winter cabbages.

Gets us this many pods!

Starvation rations.

Next year, the beds will have TONS of muck on them, and will be WATERED.  Only myself to blame, really...

1 comment:

  1. I feel your pain. I've found broad beans very hard to get going properly around here. There's a shortage of something in the soil, I reckon. Maybe everything.

    I've alighted on the comprehensive muck approach for next year too. This old forest soil is rubbish in drought as it is and watering is out of the question for my garden.

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