LittleErnie's Blog

Experiment Success
Nov 26, 2007 | 3:27 AM PST
Tag: november

At the end of August I planted some sprouting potatoes in a plot 4ft by 3ft to see if I could get a crop before the first frosts. It worked and I lifted a large bag of new potatoes and they are delicious. It looks as if I could get two crops per year so that is another project for next year. Using a bucket to plant potatoes in autumn means that you can have new ones for christmas dinner. When the weather permits it is all tidying up at present. If this coming January is like the last one the snowdrops should emerge. I have also encouraged wild celandines  in the damp patches of lawn and they provide an early splash of colour. Attention is placed on the house plants now to ensure there survival. It is too easy to forget that some need a rest but one of our surviving orchids is now in bud. Prices have dropped over the lat few years and are as low as £5 ($10US) in some shops. The annual purchase of potted poinsettias has begun but very few survive 12 months so sustaining the trade.