Christmas Potatoes!

   First ever Christmas potatoes! After three attempts at growing new potatoes for Christmas, success! A decent amount of potatoes were obtained from potatoes planted in the poly tunnel despite the plants being killed off by blight/mould. Sprouts, rather on the small side and once again disappointing, parsnips and small carrots were other vegetables taken from the garden for the Christmas table to go with the home raised goose. I am going go give up with sprouts. Really not worth the effort and the fact that they have to be in the ground for a long time.

Christmas Potatoes

As has been the trend since moving to this part of France winter really starts to bite at the end of December. There has now been several mornings of frost.
   I come back to this blog with Christmas over and the New Year underway. Much to my surprise the weather has turned mild but still very damp with many days of  on/off drizzle. On the sowing front I am resisting sowing onion seed for another week or so.
   Nothing much going on in the garden, either too wet or frosty or something else gets in the way. There is still a lot of tidying up to do but the weather has not cooperated. Dug up some leeks and parsnips. In the poly tunnel I have forked/raked in some pot ash (ashes taken from the wood burner) into about half of the long bed. There is not a lot going on in the poly tunnel. Some fennel is hanging on as are some radishes. The spring cabbage still looks good and fingers crossed I may get one or two. My peas, due to the mild weather, are further on than I would have liked. I may try to sow some more and see what happens.
   All in all a quite couple of weeks on the garden front with more being done on the Christmas/New Year celebrating side!