Category: Subsistence Gardener weekly blog

We have been growing yellow split peas here in Brittany for several years now. We started with a single row in the vegetable garden, and have gradually increased from there; this year, we have just finished sowing half of one of our small fields (about 300 square metres) with yellow peas. The main reason why… Continue reading Yellow Split Peas

In many respects, potatoes provide the ideal introduction to food growing, particularly for anyone who has little or no gardening experience – the plants are strong enough to compete with weeds, they will grow in ground that has not been particularly well prepared, and, perhaps most significantly, they can yield a significant crop from a… Continue reading Potatoes