I"ve expanded operations to pots as well as our small veg patch this year. Discovered slugs seem to let me have peas, grown nearly 1700g stupice tomatoes and still coming, had baby corn- and a ton of corn leaves for the guinea pigs, 700g french beans which I'd like to improve on for next year, discovered pea shoots. Lots of green potatoes so need a different technique next year, small beetroot and black radishes in tubs ready to harvest. Field beans and chard outside, onions to go tomorrow. A successful year, but plenty left to learn. 3kg of pears from our little u cordon, but half that of apples- need earlier pruning and thinning next year.
We expanded this year to 1/2 acre under vegetables, of which I probably used around 2/3 the rest is growing a lovely cover crop, cough weeds. Money wise it went very well not only saving a lot of money on food but also I sell it so we turned an actual profit. Notable crops were tomatoes, at 100kg in about 32m2, strawberries that managed 170g per plant in their first year. and oddly two mellon plants that I bought on a whim and threw into the end of a greenhouse and then promply forgot about they produced 12 melons between them, unfortunately at least 7 ended up in the bin, there's only so much melon one can eat and they all came ready at once!
Hello , just seen this thread I do keep a record of the actively at the allotment / garden last year I completed a year long Diary for Sheffield Uni for allotment research So I have carried this on this year , found the info interesting
Last year I didn't have the veg plot, but the weather was hotter than usual. This year has had funny weather, but with the veg beds has been productive in some things. Alot of people have been commenting on the poor bean/pea germination/crop and early brassicas that bolted. Considering it's been a fairly mild summer the spring weather has a large impact it seems.
We grow fair bit of veg in the garden, plus raspberries, then tomatoes in the glasshouse, good year for beetroot, and onions, potatoes not bad, peas and beans satisfactory, leeks had rust but still have a few that seem eatable, and parsnips looking good, broad bean seed sown, ready for next year, hoping the winter won't be too wet, they stand cold but not too much wet.
It's my first year doing winter veg. The leeks look ok, the onions have disappeared, the cabbage is growing well, but the purple broccoli has been ravaged by caterpillars even though it was netted.🙄
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I do keep a record of the actively at the allotment / garden
last year I completed a year long Diary for Sheffield Uni for allotment research
So I have carried this on this year , found the info interesting
French & Broad beans excellent , peas hopeless
The leeks look ok, the onions have disappeared, the cabbage is growing well, but the purple broccoli has been ravaged by caterpillars even though it was netted.🙄