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RE: English Garden Journal - July 2021

in Natural Medicine • 3 years ago (edited)

Private park member sounds very vip-like 😯 😯 😯 And the pond looks wonderful (may I say that I still miss botanical parks, galleries etc very much? But not for much longer, in some weeks I will be vaccinated)
ANd your plants are great, especially the potatoes look interesting with the flowers and the dark stems. I tried potatoes the first time this year and mine are growing like crazy (thankfully as slugs simultaneously try to eat them) but the plants look very differently; light green and no flowers at all. I have them in a pot and some in a patch… not idea if I will yield any harvest :-DDD
THe photo is roughly two weeks old, now the plants are even bigger (for a potato newbie like me this is very surprising, never thought they have so much green :-DDDD)
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The Garden is lovely and I do like being able to go in there whenever I wish, it is only about ten minutes walk from where I live. I have just signed up as a volunteer to help once a month. I also have a beautiful meadow just a short walk away - I was there this morning getting some inspiration for designing.

I believe potato plants look different according to the variety. In previous years, the ones I have grown have had very light foliage. This year, I think you can tell they definitely belong to the nightshade family 😆! Potatoes do grow gratifying well! They will cover a patch of ground easily, and you will forever find potatoes growing there!