The great, good and not so good bits about growing your own dinner 2017

Morning everyone. At last a dry day when I don't have to do paid stuff. The ground is still too wet to cut the grass today but so far I have repotted some of my tomato plants into individual large tubs. They were struggling in the grow bags so I have nothing to lose. Some have fruits on so I'd rather not lose them.

I have also dug a new flower bed. Just need to get planting and put lots of compost on there.

Also beginning to get a handful of strawberries each day, lots of peas and the runner beans are flowering.

unrecordings wrote: »

Went out for the first time in a few days. All the blackcurrants have disappeared and there's evidence of pigeons bouncing up and down on them to get at the fruit. Outdoor courgettes are losing the battle, but indoor ones are still fine. Raspberries are starting to fruit here, again signs of pigeon bounce. Not sure what's happening with my beans, they seem to have stalled...

Some of my crops seem to have stalled too, cucumber, beans, courgettes mostly, presume it was down to the cold weather last week.

Potatoes however are coming thick and fast, gave 6lb to family yesterday, still got several more pots of first earlies to harvest :eek:

Lots of tomato plants setting fruit now, strawberries have all but finished and I noticed a couple that ripened during the week have been eaten. Been back and forth to my mums all week as she has been very poorly, so the garden was a bit neglected

At home all day today, weather looks good so will get a wiggle on and tend to the crops and maybe pot up some bedding plants.

Have a good day all

Question on onions:

How do you know when they are ready to pull?

Was too bring and sunny for me and my allergy to go up the plot with yesterday. Plus silly dog has cut his pad, so spent all day trying to deal with that, it keeps bleeding on and off despite being a small tiny cut! With any luck, I'll be able to go up the plot by myself this afternoon if it stays this cloudy. My growhouse bits need watering.

I've also scored a wormery for the price of petrol from their house to mine, so thats awesome! Just need to buy some worms for it.I think I'll site that up at the allotment behind the growtunnel as it'll have some shade/wind protection then.

Kantankrus_Mare wrote: »

Onions are ready when the green stalk starts folding over.

Mine are all laid on a shelf in greenhouse drying out which was an idea that paid off after the downpours we had last week. :j

Excellent - thankyou.
I shall await the Big Flop
Hopefully I'll have 3 nice ones to pull up to enter into our allotment show at the end of the month, be nice to participate

Morning All
It's a nice cool day here in Gloucestershire. Hope it's good where ever you are.

I brought the over-wintered shallots and red onions home last night to dry out under the umbrella. They look pretty good only 4 that need to be used straight away all the other can be plaited. I'll bring the white onions back later in the week. And I dug up the last of the rocket earlies. So on to the charlottes now.

Maisymoo5 it sounds as though you have something like marketmore or masterpiece - both are ridged cus that have little spikes. If they are outside don't worry about them the bees will pollinate them. They only get bitter if you leave them on too long. Do give them a good potash feed every couple of weeks when they start to flower as they use up plenty of energy. Water regularly - the male flowers just fall off and leave the females there. Maybe you are looking at specialist cus on youtube. Picking them small will encourage the plant to keep flowering.

All the best