Platform 22 Torphins Summer Market Tomorrow 10am till 2pm

Well for the summer market tomorrow at Platform 22 Torphins more of our own home grown veg will be available including Courgettes, Salad bags Cucumbers, Onions, Broccoli Heads, Baby Cauliflowers and 'pointy' Cabbages - limited quantities at the moment but hopefully will give everyone an idea of what's going to be coming to the Wednesday market each week and be included in the veggie boxes very soon.

 

Everything as ever is picked on the day so tomorrow will be an early start......again.

We'll also have our Jams Marmalades & Chutneys with some tasters for you to try.

For our Wednesday customers the good news is our new hens are laying already so hoping to have plenty of eggs again from next week onwards

Fingers crossed for good weather... see you all tomorrow

The Veggies are coming....at last

yes thank you the first cucumber of 2013 should be ready for eating this week

 or maybe next.......maybe we'll eat it or auction it off !!!

Progress............at last !!!

 

Well finally with the warm weather we've got quite a lot of veg growing outside as you can see from the picture below, Cabbage, Cauliflowers, Broccoli, Peas, Broad Beans, Onions

and as our backs can testify several hundred tatties !!

 

 Inside the Polytunnels the salads are growing like mad.....lucky us ;-)

and the Cucumbers are in their new home and seem to be thriving - in previous years they've not liked being moved and taken a good 10 days or so to settle in

 

and there are some tiny cucumbers on the plants already as hopefully you can see in the picture below - at this rate we'll have some ready by the end of June and if they are half as good as previous years everyone will love them again

The Tomatoes too are settling in

 

and as you can see on the left we've got some fruit which again hopefully will be ready in the not too distant future









For those of you who grow your own tomatoes we picked up this deep root watering system idea recently - watering  is one thing which causes problems with Tomatoes so the idea is that the drainpipe enables water to get to the roots of the plant - all you need to do is 'dig' a hole place a length of drainpipe around a foot or so with 1/2 inch holes drilled in it where it will be below the surface - you can then fill it when watering with a hose or watering can - it will be interesting to see how this works this year