We Grow Our OwnWhat we grow, what we cook, what we eat …

After the overwhelming response to last month’s Cultivate, Click & Cook competition, I have decided to set this up as a monthly competition, to encourage people to cook with whatever is in season.

So, here is a reminder of the rules …

Thank you to everyone who entered and to all those that voted in April’s Cultivate, Cook & Click competition.

I can now announce that the winner of this month’s competition is …

Thank you for all of your entries for this month’s competition, and now it is time to reveal the prizes and the finalists for this month.

As you’ll know by now, two of the things I love doing is growing vegetables and fruit at my allotment, and cooking with whatever is in season.

A few days ago, my better half and I thought why not combine the two, and make it into a monthly competition. Even better, the winner of the competition each month will win some fabulous food related prizes that have kindly been donated.

As it’s getting towards the time of year when people think about planting potatoes, I thought I’d post my thoughts about how to get the best crop of home grown potatoes.

As you’ll know from one of my previous posts my favourite ingredient next to chillies is garlic. I made the fatal mistake of not sowing it in the last week of November, and then as we all know the winter came with a vengeance, and I only managed to plant it last weekend.

So, if you were caught out by the bad weather, or now want to try growing garlic, you can plant it now, and here are some of my tips to ensure you get a good crop.

My Heritage Seed Library catalogue from Garden Organic for 2011 arrived in the post today.

It seems as if Autumn is already giving way to Winter in my part of the Midlands, so I have been digging up all those lovely summer crops of sweetcorn, late beans, etc, and my mind has been turning to what I can plant over Winter and next year.

Both myself and @luckylottielisa have been busy bees over the weekend.

I decided to bite the bullet this weekend and plant up the rest of the broad bean and sweetcorn plants that were growing too big for the greenhouse.