My veg always seem to be behind everyone else’s I sowed them end of April beg of May (should have wrote it down) but they always seem slow to get going. They were started off on a heated mat in the greenhouse. Anyone else the same? Ive attached pics of my climbing honeyboat squash - tomatoes - lettuce and patty pans taken today.
@Mary370, I planted my first fruit and veg 4 years ago, in a small urban garden, and I rarely produce more than the three of us can eat straight away! Start small, you can always plant more. I occasionally have a surplus of rhubarb or tomatoes, and I find the neighbours and people at church are usually very happy to relieve me of them. The phrases "home grown" and "home made" mean a lot to people in this age of one-size-fits-nobody mass production.
I suggest you start with potatoes, they are very easy and so rewarding. Spread some manure or compost on your chosen site in the autumn and leave the soil critters to work their magic. Then plant your spuds in the spring. To me, it's a bit like pregnancy, they are growing away there out of sight in the ground, and you wait expectantly, nourishing and tending them and wondering what they'll be like. Then at the due time, you unearth buried treasure.
It's taken four years to have enough blackcurrants and gooseberries to be worth gathering. That's all the blackcurrants, but there are plenty more gooseberries in the bush, I'm hoping they'll get bigger. My other gooseberry bush is a dessert variety, the fruits are just beginning to redden.
I’ve just got back from a weeks holiday and the garden has gone bonkers in the hot weather.
It looks like my neighbour did a great job of keeping the garden watered for me, but didn’t take me up on he offer to pick anything they fancied.
I picked anything that was worth picking before we left so all this has appeared in 7 days.
I’ve some nice size cucumbers, first batch of French and runner beans. Loads of broad beans and more peas than I know what to do with.
I’ve put a tennis ball to give a sense of scale to the ridiculous courgette/marrow. They were just flowers when I left. Maybe I should go on holiday more often!
Those potatoes look delicious Sheps. A good quantity there. We haven't been able to grow spuds since blight found it's way into our veg. patch when we loaned part of it to another grower. Got to wait three years before trying again - 1 more year to go and then we hope to have a crop like the one you have here.
Thanks GD...all mine contracted early blight, so had to chop off all the tops, which I think has stopped the tubers growing to the proper size, hence a few big ones and lots of small to medium sized ones.
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they always seem slow to get going. They were started off on a heated mat in the greenhouse. Anyone else the same?
Ive attached pics of my climbing honeyboat squash - tomatoes - lettuce and patty pans taken today.
I suggest you start with potatoes, they are very easy and so rewarding. Spread some manure or compost on your chosen site in the autumn and leave the soil critters to work their magic. Then plant your spuds in the spring. To me, it's a bit like pregnancy, they are growing away there out of sight in the ground, and you wait expectantly, nourishing and tending them and wondering what they'll be like. Then at the due time, you unearth buried treasure.
It's taken four years to have enough blackcurrants and gooseberries to be worth gathering. That's all the blackcurrants, but there are plenty more gooseberries in the bush, I'm hoping they'll get bigger. My other gooseberry bush is a dessert variety, the fruits are just beginning to redden.
It looks like my neighbour did a great job of keeping the garden watered for me, but didn’t take me up on he offer to pick anything they fancied.
I picked anything that was worth picking before we left so all this has appeared in 7 days.
I’ve some nice size cucumbers, first batch of French and runner beans. Loads of broad beans and more peas than I know what to do with.
I’ve put a tennis ball to give a sense of scale to the ridiculous courgette/marrow. They were just flowers when I left. Maybe I should go on holiday more often!
The fruit looks amazing, scroggin