My Roma's don't have many seeds either. They are fleshy, but so, so watery but you've given me an idea for what to do with them when the rest of them eventually ripen. If I roast them first to remove a lot of the water they'll very probably make a rather nice tomato sauce. Thanks, Heather x
Agreed, nice idea for a thread - thought I replied yesterday but post went crazy!
My first proper summer in this garden,was quite unfocused and tried all sorts of stuff . Goodish year overall, lots of caterpillar problems once it got warm and they ate everything to some extent - cabbages, kale, chillies and tomatoes all got hit. Anyway...
Runner beans - Enorma, done well after lateish start.
French beans - Purple Teepee grew well and prolific, Speedy ok too. Tried Solano - a yellow type, small and disappointing beans.
Carrots - Nandor, my first proper try at carrots and got some nice ones so growing a later crop in deep pots. Will try more next year.
Cabbages - Greyhound, grew very easily and got some big hearts. Will grow again with some netting etc next year.
Tomatoes - good crop - Sungolds prolific but agree bit too sweet for me and split a lot, Torenzo bush type were prolific and tasty. Ferline - good size fruits. Bought a Shirley and Gardeners Delight late on from GC cheap, and those are still fruiting.
Courgettes - didn't have a good year, hit and miss with several types. Think the weather didn't help. Tried Black Forest climbers with seeds from GW show but think it was a little late - few nice fruits off those.
Garlic - Albigensian Wight - good little crop, tasty cloves.
Cucumbers - Marketmore outdoor type very good as they were last year. Some good Telegraphs in the greenhouse but got mildewy early.
Chillies - all did okay - Numex Twilight and Oruzco Hot Purple particularly (in greenhouse), and will try to overwinter a couple in a propagator this year and have one at least for indoor pot plant. Each year I grow some from my own dried chillies from the year before, and try a few different types. Friars Hat tried this year - unusual looking and did ok.
Hi Kevin - I grew those Solano beans a few years ago - we liked the flavour, but all the beans were ready to pick at the same time - I spent a whole weekend freezing beans and ramming them into our tiny freezer
Am going to try Buerre de Roquencourt next year, if I can find space in the garden - I've not grown them before, but they're supposed to have a fantastic flavour
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove - cosmos don't need heat to germinate - mine come up fine on a windowsill. I tried them once with bottom feat and they germinated in 2 days and shot up so quickly that they got too leggy, and i couldn't do anything with them. Slowly does it seems to produce stronger plants. And they need to be strong to withstand the "Verdun regime" of pinching the poor things out everytime they put forth a shoot. Works well though - mine have been better than ever this year.
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Bizzie Lizzie,
My Roma's don't have many seeds either. They are fleshy, but so, so watery but you've given me an idea for what to do with them when the rest of them eventually ripen. If I roast them first to remove a lot of the water they'll very probably make a rather nice tomato sauce. Thanks, Heather x
That was last week Verdun
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yum! Haven't had toad in the hole for quite some time. Me thinks I might have to remedy that and soon lol Fab yorkshire pudding x
Hi Dove. Where did you get your Anna Russian seeds? i can only find them on USA sites.
They were a present - I was very lucky indeed
Try Premier Seeds Direct on Amazon
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I won't bother again with
samphire- didn't germinate.
cucamelons- tiny sour melon (one) no use for anything.
Yard long bean Metro rouge.- still waiting for them to flower.
runner bean firestorm. Didn't like the red tinge on the pods and not as tender as moonlight.
Potato lady balfour -tubers attacked by slugs and hollowed out.
Onion bedfordshire champion- grew well but nothing like the yield of red mammoth or kelsae.
Will grow again-
Sweet corn swift. Lots of cobs of really sweet corn.
Runner bean moonlight nice tender pods.
Seaweed kale- lots of leaves through the season.
potato Kifli -good salad potato.
Potato blue danube-really good for roasties.
courgette black forest- good solid courgettes.
Onion kelsae- huge bulbs.
Onion red Mammoth- good sized sweet bulbs
Agreed, nice idea for a thread - thought I replied yesterday but post went crazy!
My first proper summer in this garden,was quite unfocused and tried all sorts of stuff
. Goodish year overall, lots of caterpillar problems once it got warm and they ate everything to some extent - cabbages, kale, chillies and tomatoes all got hit. Anyway...
Runner beans - Enorma, done well after lateish start.
French beans - Purple Teepee grew well and prolific, Speedy ok too. Tried Solano - a yellow type, small and disappointing beans.
Carrots - Nandor, my first proper try at carrots and got some nice ones so growing a later crop in deep pots. Will try more next year.
Cabbages - Greyhound, grew very easily and got some big hearts. Will grow again with some netting etc next year.
Tomatoes - good crop - Sungolds prolific but agree bit too sweet for me and split a lot, Torenzo bush type were prolific and tasty. Ferline - good size fruits. Bought a Shirley and Gardeners Delight late on from GC cheap, and those are still fruiting.
Courgettes - didn't have a good year, hit and miss with several types. Think the weather didn't help. Tried Black Forest climbers with seeds from GW show but think it was a little late - few nice fruits off those.
Garlic - Albigensian Wight - good little crop, tasty cloves.
Cucumbers - Marketmore outdoor type very good as they were last year. Some good Telegraphs in the greenhouse but got mildewy early.
Chillies - all did okay - Numex Twilight and Oruzco Hot Purple particularly (in greenhouse), and will try to overwinter a couple in a propagator this year and have one at least for indoor pot plant. Each year I grow some from my own dried chillies from the year before, and try a few different types. Friars Hat tried this year - unusual looking and did ok.
Hi Kevin - I grew those Solano beans a few years ago - we liked the flavour, but all the beans were ready to pick at the same time - I spent a whole weekend freezing beans and ramming them into our tiny freezer
Am going to try Buerre de Roquencourt next year, if I can find space in the garden - I've not grown them before, but they're supposed to have a fantastic flavour
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove - cosmos don't need heat to germinate - mine come up fine on a windowsill. I tried them once with bottom feat and they germinated in 2 days and shot up so quickly that they got too leggy, and i couldn't do anything with them. Slowly does it seems to produce stronger plants. And they need to be strong to withstand the "Verdun regime" of pinching the poor things out everytime they put forth a shoot. Works well though - mine have been better than ever this year.