The Veggie Patch

An arial shot taken in June 2006 long before The Veggie Patch

3 male Tamworths use their snouts to turn over the turf to eat the roots.

April 2009 the pigs are 2 months old.

2009 our first attempts - long narrow beds seem productive

Artichokes, cabbages, celery, potatoes and onions drying over to the right.

Black rock hens from Kintaline Farm, good for Scottish climate

2009, I planted far too many tomatoes and peppers and they got Blight.

One of the hens rescued from an intensive battery farm, her scruffy feathers look much better now, though her beak is still cut.

110 bales of straw for mulch, compost and a raised bed

30 asparagus crowns mulched with seaweed

Fuscia, dog rose and broom prunings - if they root we've got a hedge.

Cow manure lies covered for a year then used to enrich the soil, the wildflowers are pretty and encourage wildlife

Go over with the lawnmower to produce a nice mulch

Mulch keeps moisture in, weeds out and adds nutrients

The polytunnel is blooming

Grown in the polytunnell

RUNNER BEANS Red Flame, FRENCH BEANS The Prince & CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN Barlotta Lingua di Fuoco

The courgettes are doing well.

The sales table in Millhouse end July.

Cucumber growing in the polytunnel

Early August 3013

The harvest from one Redcurrant bush

Bumper crop of Blackcurrants this year

Kate at a Produce Sale in Kilmun July 2013

The potato patch outside the polytunnel 2013

Inside the polytunnel July 2013

Moorland Gold Multi Purpose Potting Compost