The rhubarb is wonderful but my strawberries are a long way off being near ready to consume! Mind you I'm still wearing a vest so many the weather is a little chillier up here.
We have the herbs but are now running out of last years garlic. I'm not looking hopeful at a good harvest and someone's paws crushed every onion so that might be a wash out too.
Lot's of different herbs and rubarb.Gooseberries are about ready. Fruit bushes looking good and strawberries in flower. I'm looking forward to a late harvest and lots of winter veg.
Have been picking rhubard, salad leaves, pea shoots & herbs for several weeks. Had the first salad turnip, strawbobs (2)! and full lettuce this weekend.
Looks like lots of goodies to come but I suspect the newly planted tomatoes & courgettes will have struggled with the last couple of very cold nights.
Also - the strawberries look very small this year. I have watered them & most look as if they have a long way to go before they are ready for harvest - but I'm wondering if this is a side effect of the cold spring / fluctuating temperatures we've had. Anybody else noticing this?
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Top bird it's the same here, I'm in the southeast but at the top of a breezy hill, have had lovely rocket, pak cho and lettuce leaves for a couple of weeks, but the rest looks a long way off, and the strawberry are no where near! A bit chilly out there again and overcast but fingers crossed it improves sharpish
I bought some rainbow chard plug plants which arrived in March, planted them out in due course and have been eating them for a while. Some of them seem to be going to seed. Should I carry on cutting off the wannabe flowering stems (and eating them) or should I pull them up to make room for something else?
Chard is beetroot with small roots, and beetroot is known to bolt when grown early. By the way it is very easy to grow chard and beetroot from seed, just buy some module trays and compost. Sorry if this is obvious. One of my beetroots bolted, so I picked it and ate the leaves. The stems and small root were very hot and burnt my throat, so were discarded, but the leaves were good in a fish stew. It was a yellow beetroot and I think I am allergic to yellow beetroot, or maybe bolting makes them hot?
Thank you LeifUK, I'm new to growing chard so all info gratefully received. I'll carry on until the current crop becomes unpalatable and then grow some from seed for later in the year
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The rhubarb is wonderful but my strawberries are a long way off being near ready to consume! Mind you I'm still wearing a vest so many the weather is a little chillier up here.
We have the herbs but are now running out of last years garlic. I'm not looking hopeful at a good harvest and someone's paws crushed every onion so that might be a wash out too.
Lot's of different herbs and rubarb.Gooseberries are about ready. Fruit bushes looking good and strawberries in flower. I'm looking forward to a late harvest and lots of winter veg.
The first carrots, huge Pak Choi, leaves from a bolting beetroot, one spring onion, rhubarb.
Looks like lots of goodies to come but I suspect the newly planted tomatoes & courgettes will have struggled with the last couple of very cold nights.
Also - the strawberries look very small this year. I have watered them & most look as if they have a long way to go before they are ready for harvest - but I'm wondering if this is a side effect of the cold spring / fluctuating temperatures we've had. Anybody else noticing this?
Top bird it's the same here, I'm in the southeast but at the top of a breezy hill, have had lovely rocket, pak cho and lettuce leaves for a couple of weeks, but the rest looks a long way off, and the strawberry are no where near! A bit chilly out there again and overcast but fingers crossed it improves sharpish
I bought some rainbow chard plug plants which arrived in March, planted them out in due course and have been eating them for a while. Some of them seem to be going to seed. Should I carry on cutting off the wannabe flowering stems (and eating them) or should I pull them up to make room for something else?
Chard is beetroot with small roots, and beetroot is known to bolt when grown early. By the way it is very easy to grow chard and beetroot from seed, just buy some module trays and compost. Sorry if this is obvious. One of my beetroots bolted, so I picked it and ate the leaves. The stems and small root were very hot and burnt my throat, so were discarded, but the leaves were good in a fish stew. It was a yellow beetroot and I think I am allergic to yellow beetroot, or maybe bolting makes them hot?
Thank you LeifUK, I'm new to growing chard so all info gratefully received. I'll carry on until the current crop becomes unpalatable and then grow some from seed for later in the year