The Easiest to Grow Vegetables and Fruit from Bealtaine Cottage

Posted March 28, 2012

Posted in Country Living, Garden, Growing Food, Organic Garden, Permaculture, polytunnel gardening, Uncategorized, Vegetarian

Potatoes.

Last year I grew them successfully on straw and manure spread on the ground on top of cardboard.

The ground was in perfect condition afterwards for digging in a new Rhubarb bed.

Swiss Chard.

A cut and come again crop.

It just keeps on giving!

Here it is growing outdoors during the winter.

The frost may set it back but it grows again quickly from the root.

Swiss Chard in the tunnel today…Ruby Chard

Eat young leaves as salad or
cook.

You can sow directly into the soil, but I prefer to start almost everything off in pots to give them some strength to resist the slugs!

Dark Ruby Chard has over-wintered well in the tunnel

The stalks are marvellously coloured and can be white, as above, yellow, red, and orange, so they can look great in flower beds too!

Beetroot grows easily and stays in the ground over winter, so can be harvested without fuss.

If left in the ground until the following spring, you will be able to harvest some young leaves from the plant too.

Great in Juices too!

Parsley…a biennial, so will over-winter perfectly and not be set back by frost if protected just a little, like above, using an old bottom-less bread tin.

Pumpkins…grow the same as Butternut Squash…the more enriched the soil, the bigger they grow…so, watch out!

Pumpkin and Butternut Squash…I grew these from saved seeds from the previous year.

Just make sure that the soil is enriched with lots of well rotted manure, or good compost, for they are hungry plants!

Apples…invest in a few apple trees…fruit trees will never let you down! I have planted around forty fruit trees of all varieties here at Bealtaine Cottage.

When in blossom, fruit trees are a wonderful source of food for the Bees…

Blackcurrants…the gardens at Bealtaine are infested with them!

I have grown all of my Blackcurrant bushes from seed or cuttings!

I have a surplus of Blackcurrant cuttings at the moment and these are offered for sale at this link…

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4 thoughts on “The Easiest to Grow Vegetables and Fruit from Bealtaine Cottage”

Posted February 29, 2016 at 2:02 pm by Bealtaine Cottage

Reblogged this on Bealtaine Cottage and commented:

Blackcurrants…the gardens at Bealtaine are infested with them!
I have grown all of my Blackcurrant bushes from seed or cuttings!
I have a surplus of Blackcurrant cuttings at the moment and these are offered for sale at this link…

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Posted March 28, 2012 at 5:46 pm by fromthepigpen

Chard I can grow but my spuds get bight, we have discussed this. I did grow one butternut! I hadn’t fed the soil I think. I look forward to your posts to see what is going on.

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Posted March 28, 2012 at 3:04 pm by misty maples farm

I simply love the walks around your gardens…I am anxious for our weather to be warm enough to really get my hands dirty. I do have a little green house now, so lots of plants are started!

take care,
Jess

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- Posted March 28, 2012 at 4:41 pm by PermaGoddess
  
  Hi Jess, it’s amazing how quickly the Spring moves in…and there’s simply tons left to do from the Autumn and Winter, or so it goes here at any rate! Now is the time to get everything ready for the beautiful mayhem that is Spring!
  Colx
  
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