Potatoes - Pentland javelin

As I may have mentioned, I bought the pot of potatoes because my daughter thought it looked nice! Well to be fair, it has looked very nice and has helped fill up the appotment.

As the foliage was beginning to look a bit jaded, we decided to harvest the spuds and to see what £5 worth of home grown veg looked like.

I have to say, digging up those spuds with our mini trowel was worth every penny. It was so exciting seeing them appear. They varied in sixe from tiny to a good size for a new potato.

The resulting yield weighted one and a half pounds. I ate some of them for my dinner, boiled with mint out of the plot, along with home grown lettuce. I had to buy a tomato as mine are not quite ready but it was wonderful to eat what we had grown.

I have to admit that I ate the rest during the afternoon as sweets because they were so yummy

Potatoes, carrots and peppers

After a shaky start the carrots look nice and leafy. There is probably going to be a yield of one carrot but they look nice. I really thought i was growing soil so it has been nice to see the wonderful feathery foliage appear.

The potato was bought at a garden centre, already in a pot. It cost me £5 which is stupid but Lianne wanted it so i gave in (lol). Next year i am going to get a potato bag or two. I may even have my garden up and running by then.

There is a redskin pepper and a yellow banana pepper. They have not really done much so maybe they want more space.