Hope all the veg is coming on well folks. Pleased with mine so far 🤞🏼 Anyone ever grown cucumbers in the house?? I sowed my, practically free, seeds and have a few good-looking plants now. I don’t have a greenhouse so was wondering if they would cope against a patio door?? It Is south-facing but is that enough to give 180 degrees of light for 6/8 hours??
It's just as much warmth as light @AuntyRach, you dont have a plastic greenhouse to put them in? In the conservatory they will take over as they get big 6 to 8 feet and need heavy support, plus it can't get too hot either.
Last night I tipped a bucket of home made compost over each potato plant to cover the green leaves and protect them from frost. This morning the blackbirds had scattered it everywhere. The onions grown from seed are in the ground, and the french beans runner beans and sweet corn are doing the hokey cokey. Sweet peas for cutting are in and tied to the canes, and peas in pots look like they are germinating. Broccoli, kale and basil have germinated in the greenhouse. Courgette seeds have germinated.
No didn't catch it. I haven't seen much of my garden as been ill all week. Got to look at them and its amazing how fast things grow in a week. Tom's and cucumbers have flowers, potatoes are taking over, and will have to remove netting as carrots are pushing through and the spring onions are above it too.🙄
Six tomato plants in pots in the greenhouse. Ten tomato plants in the ground in the polygrowhouse. The french beans and the runner beans are now in the ground and tied to canes.Leaky hosepipes are draped around the area. I waited until all this windy weather has passed. The soil is bone dry. I am having to put a soaker hose on before I can dig. The two cucumber plants have keeled over and died.
I saw Alan Titchmarsh. It looked like they had various plans for other gardens so they are using up the ideas that were already in progress. Second tray of salad leaves is up. Two crown prince squashes are up, the rest got ate by a mouse. I also have three yellow courgette and seven black forest climbing courgette to find homes for.
Not sure how much horticultural knowledge David Domoney has got. Plums in November to December? Really?
Many years ago I used to weigh everything edible that came out of the garden. Mainly to prove that the cost of the food outweighed the cost of fertiliser and seeds. Anyway the superior taste of home grown beat that argument into the ground. However this year I am going to do the same. There were a couple of kale plants still in the polytunnel , with tomatoes planted in between them. Last night we ate them with some lamb steaks. They only weighed 8 oz in leaves, but sufficient for two of us, and probably equivalent to one of the bags in the supermarket . Very tender as it had grown under cover,not the rough sort with a thick stem that you get in the supermarket. Has anyone else noticed the ready prepped stuff is cut wrong? I cut the main ribs out to leave the tender leaf, not cut across it to give woody chewy stuff.
The blue danube potatoes are flowering. I had a quick nip along the rows to pinch off all the flowers. Very pretty, almost good enough to put in a vase.
I'm always in two minds whether to take the flowers off the potatoes or not .🤔 I always keep a record of cost/versus production and last year the harvest produced 50% more than the cost would have been to buy said produce. Plus the bonus of great tasting fruit/veg. Each year it's about £100 to set up seed, compost, manure, plants and equipment, but that then gives me cucumbers, tomatoes, spring onions, potatoes, carrots, and soft fruit to eat during the summer. Then for winter I have veg and tomato soup, potatoes, jam, and pickle. Which to me makes it all worth while.
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Anyone ever grown cucumbers in the house?? I sowed my, practically free, seeds and have a few good-looking plants now. I don’t have a greenhouse so was wondering if they would cope against a patio door?? It Is south-facing but is that enough to give 180 degrees of light for 6/8 hours??
however the potato, onions and courgettes are going from strength to strength! 🙂
How is everyone else doing? 🧐
Did anyone else catch ‘ Grow Your Own At Home With Alan Titchmarsh’ on ITV?
I haven't seen much of my garden as been ill all week. Got to look at them and its amazing how fast things grow in a week. Tom's and cucumbers have flowers, potatoes are taking over, and will have to remove netting as carrots are pushing through and the spring onions are above it too.🙄
I always keep a record of cost/versus production and last year the harvest produced 50% more than the cost would have been to buy said produce. Plus the bonus of great tasting fruit/veg.
Each year it's about £100 to set up seed, compost, manure, plants and equipment, but that then gives me cucumbers, tomatoes, spring onions, potatoes, carrots, and soft fruit to eat during the summer. Then for winter I have veg and tomato soup, potatoes, jam, and pickle. Which to me makes it all worth while.