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This is an amazing plant – it completely dies down in winter and grows super fast in spring – here it is just beginning to come away again in September.
In an effort to extend the vege patch into the flower garden I decided to try the tyre method of growing potatoes. Here they are in late September. My difficulty is getting enough compost and soil to keep heaping them up, This garden is pure sand apart from the home made compost and soil which has been bought.
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I started my replanting for the 2007 summer in September. I didn’t manage to grow anything during winter, this garden does suffer from pretty severe frosts, however after reading Andrew and Leigh’s blogs, maybe I will give it another go in the winter of 08. It is now the end of December so these photos are old. We are eating the broccolli which are growing in the plactic bottle protectors in the top photo. The heads took about four weeks to develop. The bare patch in the bottom photo is now producing lettuces, peas, carrots, potatoes, radishes, spinach and onions. The glasshouse has several tomatoes and courgettes. I think one of my courgettes is a male only plant. There don’t seem to be any female flowers growing on this particular plant – can this be true? I am getting courgettes off a couple of other plants but they are not nearly as vigorous as this male only plant. I haven’t seen my garden for a week now so tomorrow I will go out there and see what has happened since I have been away. 
