tomatoes - Limes End Cottage

Summer harvest

As well as rearing our own pigs, lambs and poultry for the table we also enjoy growing as much of our own fruit and vegetables as time permits (we are only part-time smallholders after all). Despite a slow start (thanks to a cooler-than-average June) the warmer weather in July and

tomatoes

Summer harvest

Whilst we’ve been having some much needed rain over the last couple of days, the weather since the start of the month has been mostly sunny and warm which has sent our vegetable patches and fruit cage into overdrive. Gillian has been spending a lot of her free hours

sowing

First sowings

The starting gun for our growing season officially fired a couple of weekends ago when our heated propagator was retrieved from the garage to take its place on our dining room windowsill. After rummaging through the seed packets that we ordered in the depths of winter we decided to use