@CatDouch. I agree with Philippa about the strawberries, I don’t allow runners on them in their 1st year, but take a few in the 2nd and most in the 3rd. Then dump the plants.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
You would all laugh at my courgette plants, they are still exactly the same size as when I planted them out, haven’t grown a bit! I forgot to lime the ground so I think that could be the problem.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@Lyn I'll give it a go with courgette in a cake. Never done that before.
Picked more peas (they really didn't like me telling them that this year was the last unless they produced!). Having 2 more artichokes for dinner tonight.
The gooseberries have now been completed. These will be topped and tailed, made into wine and the "remains" made into chutney/jam and into the freezer.
My first decent haul of strawberries, last year everything just got eaten by the creatures of the world!
Grew them in one of those strawberry planter bags, really quite impressed
Edit: To add, I'm so impressed with how much people are growing, my cucumber plants and courgettes are still quite small! I need to get started earlier next year 😊
Depending where you are in the country @Latimer the growing season can be quite short. That is why all my produce starts in the conservatory in March/April, which means bigger plants ready for the greenhouse early May, and outside late May. As in the Midlands outside finishes in September, usually, that early start gets them fruiting, but most people who have problems with fruit ripening outside try to allow too many trusses of tomatoes to grow on cordon types instead of sticking to 3 or 4 trusses. Cherry toms are a law unto themselves, they just keep on going, and cucumbers seem to be self regulating.
Sugar snap and mangetout cropping well, Floss, our Border Collie, likes them too and happily helps herself straight from the plant 🤣. First courgette and the currants are ripening now.
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Emptied the first container of Charlottes this morning, not a bad haul considering and few of the first Sungolds.
My first decent haul of strawberries, last year everything just got eaten by the creatures of the world!
Grew them in one of those strawberry planter bags, really quite impressed
Edit: To add, I'm so impressed with how much people are growing, my cucumber plants and courgettes are still quite small! I need to get started earlier next year 😊