I’ve started to plan out my veg growing for my first year. I’ve drafted a chart and would be grateful for any comments regarding whether I am making any glaring mistakes. I am toying with idea of growing the potatoes in bags and wondered what I could put in the raised beds instead. Hope the chart loads ok.
The only thing I can see is the harvest dates are a bit tight. Like the Apache spring onions, they will continue till August ( good choice they taste lovely) are you planning only one round and not succession planting? Things will last in the ground, so subsequent plantings may not be possible. Bags for potatoes work for earlies, but not such good crops for lates. Hope this helps and doesn't make too much of a mess of your plans @Yviestevie .😊
Thanks for your advice @purplerallim I honestly don't expect everything to run smoothly and I'm sure it wont all work out. I really have no idea what I am doing to be honest. My main concern is that I might be planting things next to each other that shouldn't be.
I'll be succession planting things that grow fairly quickly but most things are going to be trial and error.
My only comment (apart from admiration at your organisation!) is that I gave up growing ordinary peas in favour of sugar peas - they are much more forgiving, and of course you get a bigger yield, since you eat the pods as well. I was pleased with 'Delikett', nice and sweet and crunchy. (I found I actually preferred frozen peas to the ones I grew myself... where's that embarrassed emoji...)
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I've found that everything I've planted has taken longer than I thought it would to come to fruition. 😊 ( here's that embarrassed emoji @Liriodendron)😁
Thanks for all your input. I think I'll move the potatoes into bags and then I can move some of the other stuff over and give them longer to mature I might even be able to do a bit more succession planting if I do that. I'll keep you posted on how I go on this thread. I'm sure I'll have so many more questions to ask as the season goes on.
Just a quick question to all you garlic experts out there. I am looking at planting elephant garlic in September in a bed where I had previously grown lettuce. I notice that lots of gardening suppliers are selling elephant garlic now. Will it be ok if buy it now and if so how should I store it, or do I wait before ordering and risk not being able to get what I want.
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