12 month Grow your own planting plans

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mum_of_4

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What is PSB?

Great stuff much,much nicer than calabrese but takes almost a full year to harvest.
Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli
late Purple Sprouting Broccoli

What we actually get sold in the supermarkets is Green Heading Calabrese. I'm fed up of trying to grow this. I managed to fit in a row this year as the loss of my peas gave me some more room. Well I'm not wasting my time again. Third year and the heads were the size of a golf ball, if any head at all. A least I'm not the only one the chairman can't grow it as well as some others on my site.




http://www.realseeds.co.uk/broccoli.html

Lotus-eater

mum_of_4 wrote: »

Great stuff much,much nicer than calabrese but takes almost a full year to harvest.
Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli
late Purple Sprouting Broccoli

What we actually get sold in the supermarkets is Green Heading Calabrese. I'm fed up of trying to grow this. I managed to fit in a row this year as the loss of my peas gave me some more room. Well I'm not wasting my time again. Third year and the heads were the size of a golf ball, if any head at all. A least I'm not the only one the chairman can't grow it as well as some others on my site.

I've grown calabrese before, but only one year, then I found PSB. As they say, once you've gone purple, you can't go back.
My DD went to her grannies at the start of the year when we were eating our PSB, of course her granny doesn't grow her own and doesn't have a clue that the "brocolli" that she served, wasn't and was calabrese.
My DD stated to granny, that this broccoli was horrible compared to the stuff we grow at home.

mum_of_4

Lotus-eater wrote: »

My DD stated to granny, that this broccoli was horrible compared to the stuff we grow at home.

:rotfl::rotfl:

We had some of my sons school friends round the other week and I had to forgot to pick some veg for dinner so I took them all up to the lottie and they picked the veg that they wanted.

At school the next day I was in trouble with the parents as the children never eat the veg at home but drove their parents mad going on about my veg and that I grow it and that they picked their own and how nice it was;)

Glitter471

Thanks for the plans,
Got today and in combination with the cheap seeds link elsewhere I am going to get sorted this year.
Only small raised beds but I have some space now and are looking to plant something for spring.
Help and advice always welcome
Cheers Lorr

harley92_2

Maz,

Thanks so much for sending your plan to me, inspired already :j

Paul

Isis_Black

Thanks for the plan!

i hope i am as brave as you to try this out in my garden it will make use of some of the wasted space in that garden!!

mum_of_4

edited -reading this back I realise I've lost the plot!

call me obsessed:o

Anyone following the thread or emailing me will know I really want to achieve a freezer full of peas. So far this year I have failed due to the pea moth:mad:

So my 960 dwarf pea seeds turned up. The info says 'really early, no need for support when grown in blocks' I've seen a photo of these peas and it's true no need for support so will be easy to keep covered.

Today I sowed the seeds in 12 rows of 72. Fingers crossed for a late crop. Now don't try it at home unless you can sow undercover. These have been sown in my very empty polytunnel thanks to nthe dreaded blight. If they turn out to be tastey and productive I will attempt to sow again in early spring and maybe mid summer. Giving me 2592 possible plants which i should be able to protect and if self supporting they will only take up 1 bed at anyone time as they can grow in blocks. I have accepted that I just won't be able to grow climbing peas on my plot as I wouldn't be able to protect them.

So assuming all the plants grow

72 x 12 = 864 plants who typically have 5 pods
864 x 5 = 4320 pods who typically have 6 - 8 peas inside so we'll say 6
4320 x 25,920 peas:j

or over the year 3 beds 12ft x 3 ft (2 outside 1 inside)

18 x 72 = 1296 plants x 3 = 3888 plants
3888 x 4 = 15,552 pods (4 pods per plant to be on the safe side)
15,552 x 6 = 93,312 peas :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I WILL GROW ENOuGH PEAS

Yes, I am obsessed - I hate buying peas at Tesco I want my own

mum_of_4

Oh and I should say that if my plan work it proves that you don't need a massive plot to GYO as the bed I refer to is 12ft X 3ft and I have always been told that I would need at least another allotment to grow enough peas.

I would love to prove them wrong

Annie021063

Sorry for hijacking the thread, but I was unsure where to post this, has anyone else had a second flush of rhubarb? Ours really did die down at the end of june/ealry july but we now have a lovely second harvest which will hopefully go on for the next couple of weeks if we keep pulling. Had some in crumble tonight, tasted normal. Should we be eating it? will it affect next years harvest?