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Managed to squeeze them in with my tundra cabbage

Managed to squeeze them in with my tundra cabbage

Did not get a huge crop of these, then again i wasnt expecting too… My experiment worked and i got enough for two meals..I assumed these were earlies as they flowered before my other potatoes – the foliage was starting to die down,so i tipped them out of their grow sack and was pleasantly surprised to get the amount i did even though they were on the small side, about the size of a brussel sprout.. Anyway – this is what i cooked with them last night…

• Warm Chicken & Potato Salad

• Ingredients
• 500g new / salad potatoes, cut into ½ cm slices
• 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 100g baby spinach
• 4 cooked chicken breasts, sliced 400g
• 100g cherry tomatoes, halved

Method Place the potatoes in a pan, cover with water and bring to the boil. Cook for 4-5 minutes. Drain, and toss in 2 tbsp oil. Fry potatoes in a frying pan for 6-7 minutes until soft and golden

Add the vinegar, remaining oil and spinach and cook for a few moments until slightly wilted. Stir in the chicken and tomatoes then serve.

will take photos at the weekend!

Could we please have a little rain, preferably during the night. There are large cracks appearing in parts of my plot, one of the downfalls of having heavy London clay. It has its good points in that it holds nutrients well. Most things grow here really well, including weeds – its surprising how quickly it changes from quite sticky to break your fork rock hard My planned one hour visit turned into four hours after weeding the beds and paths between the beds. There were a lot of wet the beds [dandelions] they seemed to have quadrupled in the last week, So it was out with the hoe to hold them off – there’ll be back…

A quick tidy up in the shed resulted in it being completely emptied and the contents rearranged – i came across some hand tools i thought i lost. I now have two onion hoes and four hand forks along with numerous left hand gloves; god knows where the right hands are. Banged in some nails to hang up my tools, should make it easier to find them, so long as i remember to hang them up – shed will not stay tidy for long.. :)

Watered plants before leaving at five o’clock

Still not ready for crumble “sigh” stems are still green…