The first of the maincrop potatoes, I have just dug from the back yard.
Oh, by the way, they’re King Edwards.

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Take some Lamb’s Lettuce (sometimes known as mache or corn salad), and add some flaked crab meat. Throw in sliced avocado, cherry tomatoes, warm new minted potatoes, and fresh cilantro.
Drizzle with olive oil, and squeeze a fresh lime over it. Season with sea alt, fresh ground black pepper, and a dash of freshly ground nutmeg.
Serve.
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I want to get this Garden Project underway now, so the ground is as ready as can be for spring planting. I realize I am not going to get everything done in one go, so I’m going to concentrate on getting one area ready, and then move onto another one. I can get some seed planted for the spring, and then work on getting another area ready for an autumn harvest.
Crop rotation is important of course, but I won’t need to concern myself with that for the first year.
I have a fork and spade, and a roller, and I shall need a sieve and a rake.
Soon I shall look at exactly what I am going to plan on planting. When I had an allotment in years past, I tended to concentrate on growing either crops that were consistently expensive to buy locally, such as asparagus; crops that were generally readily unavailable such as celeriac and different varieties of common crops, such as tomatoes, potatoes, and squashes.
Commercial growers these days usually grow for yield, whereas growing yourself means you can grow for flavor, and you can pick stuff at the optimum time for that, and of course, it’s fresher than even it is at the farmers market.
I’m certainly looking forward to what I can achieve during the 2011 growing season.
Watch this blog!
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