First time growing on an allotment and the bounty has been really good.
For the first time, I tried yellow dwarf french beans, they crept up on me, one day there seemed little on them and then suddenly every plant had beans on, Kinghorn wax from Lidl, no supports needed and good ground cover.
Very pleased with cobra french beans again and courgettes really good- I think they are Romanesque and greyhound cabbage good. More success with carrots this year, Nantes 2 I think. No success with Little Gem lettuce- tried and tried, but all been eaten. Charlotte potatoes good but not quite as tasty as last year. Lots of InternationalKidney but not that impressed with taste. Why can't I grow beetroot- grew this year and last and they are just tiny (boltardy) I thought they are meant to be easy?
I'm going to stop growing F1 varieties of calabrese/broccoli. Yes, they produce nice big heads which taste lovely, but they produce them all at once and I'm never happy freezing this stuff. Successional sowing doesn't seem to work very well - those sown 4 weeks later just seem to catch-up and crop just a few days later.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Correction to my earlier complaint about Cara spuds.
They did get blight and I had thought I had no crop at all. Then I noticed a couple on the surface, half-eaten (by voles probably) On closer inspection, there were plenty there, but not as big as they should have been, of course. Harvested them this afternoon. Yum. Hope they'll keep!
Claire: One or two courgette plants (as you've now discovered) is/are plenty, unless you really like courgettes!
Dianthus "Arctic Fire". 72 planted, all appear to be thriving (lots of healthy leaves), but not one single flower. What a waste of money........apparently perennial.....worth leaving in position overwinter?
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strawberries. they are so cheap to buy its not worth the faff. only going to grow charlotte potatoes, nothing else is as good!!
and not so many corgette plants. again.i always grow too many.and then end up sick of them,letting them grow into enormous marrows.
but mum loves them for her church harvest festival!!
First time growing on an allotment and the bounty has been really good.
For the first time, I tried yellow dwarf french beans, they crept up on me, one day there seemed little on them and then suddenly every plant had beans on, Kinghorn wax from Lidl, no supports needed and good ground cover.
Cheeky bekkie
Yes, will do courgettes, french beans, peas, onions, lettuce, toms, peppers, pots, raspberries and broad beans
Very pleased with cobra french beans again and courgettes really good- I think they are Romanesque and greyhound cabbage good. More success with carrots this year, Nantes 2 I think. No success with Little Gem lettuce- tried and tried, but all been eaten. Charlotte potatoes good but not quite as tasty as last year. Lots of InternationalKidney but not that impressed with taste. Why can't I grow beetroot- grew this year and last and they are just tiny (boltardy) I thought they are meant to be easy?
I'm going to stop growing F1 varieties of calabrese/broccoli. Yes, they produce nice big heads which taste lovely, but they produce them all at once and I'm never happy freezing this stuff. Successional sowing doesn't seem to work very well - those sown 4 weeks later just seem to catch-up and crop just a few days later.
Philippa, what are lab labs? Are they the famous Labrador Tree that grows little puppies? I'll get my coat
Correction to my earlier complaint about Cara spuds.
They did get blight and I had thought I had no crop at all. Then I noticed a couple on the surface, half-eaten (by voles probably) On closer inspection, there were plenty there, but not as big as they should have been, of course. Harvested them this afternoon. Yum. Hope they'll keep!
Claire: One or two courgette plants (as you've now discovered) is/are plenty, unless you really like courgettes!
Sorry Lilly, didnt mean it in a cheeky way - for once!