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First proper crop this year!
Shoxt3r
Posts: 196
in Fruit & veg
Hi all,
So despite the rainy weather my tomatoes are starting to come through now - we had our first decent crop a couple of weeks ago. There's still a lot of green/light green tomatoes on the horizon which I'm hoping will be pushed along when we next get some sun. Other veg we've got on the go seems to be doing quite well as well - beans and cucumbers are coming through, though the bean plants do seem a bit stunted in their growth at the moment.
Unfortunately the pepper plants really aren't getting anywhere - just a few buds at the moment but we've been reassured by a local garden centre (Edible Culture if you're a viewer of Gardener's World!) that their supplies aren't quite where they want them to be either due to the changeable climate.
Hope everyone's crops are doing better (or as well at least) as ours.
Thanks,
Andrew
So despite the rainy weather my tomatoes are starting to come through now - we had our first decent crop a couple of weeks ago. There's still a lot of green/light green tomatoes on the horizon which I'm hoping will be pushed along when we next get some sun. Other veg we've got on the go seems to be doing quite well as well - beans and cucumbers are coming through, though the bean plants do seem a bit stunted in their growth at the moment.
Unfortunately the pepper plants really aren't getting anywhere - just a few buds at the moment but we've been reassured by a local garden centre (Edible Culture if you're a viewer of Gardener's World!) that their supplies aren't quite where they want them to be either due to the changeable climate.
Hope everyone's crops are doing better (or as well at least) as ours.
Thanks,
Andrew
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Tomatoes doing well and we've been cropping for a few weeks now. Time to gear up to making passata again and drying tomatoes for storing in oil. Great bruschetta!
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Salads were good early on but are too bitter for me now - slow growth makes the leaves tough too so I need to rig up some shady beds for next year.
Still cropping "new" potatoes but I do prefer sweet potatoes tho I won't be trying to grow them again. No sweetcorn either as it's too dry.
We had another big crop of toms over the weekend (no picture unfortunately) and 2 more cucumbers but the peppers are still being stubborn. Our beans have slowed up massively but there is new growth and flowers so there's hope yet.
Our strawberries really are struggling too so not sure I'll worry about doing them again once they finish in a year or two - seem like too much trouble for not much yield to be honest.
Hoping to get some spinach or cabbage in this weekend - any tips?
I'll be clearing out most of a raised bed to accommodate them as our lettuce has gone a bit strange and decided to grow vertically rather than outwards haha. It wasn't really producing much anyway. And unfortunately growing peppers from seed really hasn't worked at all.