What have you already eaten from your patch?

huggermugger

Zazen999 wrote: »

Depending on the type, they may well be ready now anyway. You never get as many or as big in bags as in the ground - so be prepared for that.

Oh - now I really can't wait! I will look tomorrow morning. Very early .

As for the rest of you - I am so impressed. Most of all by "peppers from last years plants" - blimey!

Melonade

Lettuce :T Got plenty tonight... enough for all of us and it was delish :T

Still waiting for the strawberries :j

Wappers

So far this year; salad leaves, lettuce, cabbages, purple brocolli, cauliflower, courgettes (for about a month now :-) carrots, peas, radishes, kholrabi,.

misskool

found some wild strawberries in the front garden so scoffed that with ice cream. more courgettes, more lettuce and a radish that the slugs didn't decimate. first lot of potatoes today. YUM

mustafa_say_ving

huggermugger wrote: »

Oh - now I really can't wait! I will look tomorrow morning. Very early .

As for the rest of you - I am so impressed. Most of all by "peppers from last years plants" - blimey!

I'm sure you'll have a nice surprise

I emptied a potato sack of Charlotte potatoes today,they were grown in a "proper" potato sack as opposed to a compost bag, I do have some in compost bags too.

They were a decent size weighing 3.2k, incedently, the Charlottes we dug up 2 weeks ago only came in at 2.3k and some were a fair size but we did have some very tiny ones.

Both were planted at the same time 13/3, earthed up together 22/4, in the same position, watered and fed weekly with a seaweed feed and an occasional feed from the wormery feed.

Like I mentioned before, it's my first year growing so I'm treating it all as trial & error, I really am enjoying it though & the kids love it, especially the youngest she's a dab hand at just about everything especially sewing even the tiniest of seeds, you'd think an 8 yr old would be really cack handed!

Personally, I've learnt so much from & been inspired by the posters here.

I've had a fair few failures already:rotfl: The Garlic rotted, the Rocket bolted in what seemed to be a nano-second, 1 pot of peas was competely devoured, I killed a strawberry plant, the cat dug up the sweetpeas & a couple of runner beans 2 cucumbers rotted off & my comfrey hasn't germinated at all......the carrots are nice though:rotfl:

CandyB101_2

Rhubarb and cut/come again lettuce ..... was so proud of my achievement, I took my lettuce to a bar-b-cue for all to enjoy

jodie114

ohh i've had sooo much lettuce (lolla rossa and crisphead), and a few strawberries, and my beetroot will be ready any day now but still not a lot on my corgette (sp?) plants - they are a good 2ft at least, and full of flowers but nothing else - is it getting too late or am i just impatient?

Primrose

jodie - for some reason I often find that the first few flowers on my courgette plants come to nothing and then suddenly they all start taking off. Hopefully yours will too. It seems to be a fairly common trait with courgettes for some reason.

Rosie

We have had rhubarb, lettuce, radishes, perpetual spinach, swiss chard, chives, parsley,rocket (which has now bolted), 2 strawberries (they tasted fantastic) All these have been grown in pots & containers except for the rhubarb. This is my first year of growing anything so I am really excited. I would also like to thank everyone on here for their friendly and useful advice. I couldn't have done it without you all. xxx

rhiwfield

Its been a bit Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall here today

Stripped our second gooseberry bush and with help from our apple mint and some sugar, OH is in middle of making goosegog granita...2 big basins cooling at moment but we'll be putting it in empty margarine tubs labelled with masking tape (both OS tips) for freezing later.

Earlier gds visited and snacked on peas from the garden while I sneaked a couple of strawbs. Saw a grass snake with gd2 which made her day.

Now just using some of the early potatoes to go with sunday dinner, lovely!