veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

jaxx46

Apart from the radishes and salad leaves that we seem to have been eating forever have over the last few days been picking courgettes and dwarf beans, french beans now setting and look lovely climbing the net along with the sweet peas. Have three baby pumpkins! and my cucumbers are covered in flowers. Butternut squash seems to have loved all the rain and has doubled in size over the last couple of days. Something got at the swedelings and have only four left in the ground :mad: but the two in pots are going great guns, peppers have lots of buds, sweetcorn seems to be holding its own although I fear for it in this wind. Beetroot and carrots coming along slowly, raspberries starting to ripen, and we had two dozen gooseberries yesterday (only 2nd yr) spring onions ready for lifting brocolli ready to plant out and the tomatoes are taking over :eek:. Leeks thickening up nicely but strawberries seem to be dying back although we did have loads just for a couple of weeks. Have started planning for next year and have just bought John Harrisons book Vegetable Growing month by month for 99p in The Works. Written in good plain English that even I can understand :rotfl:Here's wishing you all Good Luck

Jackie x

frazzbo

I thought I would post some pictures of my progress!

Aubergine


Peppers

frazzbo

Double headed courgette!


Does anybody know what kind of cabbage this is? I bought them on sale a while ago from B&Q but didn't have a label with them. My book says you get spring cabbages and winter cabbages, and I don't know which one it is!

frazzbo

lunar wrote: »

Frazzbo, let me know what you decide to do about the leaves, ive just been out looking at mine but cant decide!

Still haven't done anything yet due to all the rain and wind this week! But as you can see from this pic, the are really close together so I definitely need to do something because some of the plants aren't getting enough light. And the leaves are going a bit funny as well (they've been looking like that for a while, not just from this week's rain) so hopefully if I do remove some then it might help. There are 5 courgette plants in this bit! At least I'll know for next year that they need quite a lot of space!

lolly5648

Frazzbo, the leaves on mine look exactly the same. I was also worried as some of mine are squashed in with cabbage and cauliflower but they are producing courgettes. The leaves are also the same on the ones in the flower bed which have masses of room.

PS I also have a courgette that looks like your doubleheaded one!

Mrs_Veg_Plot

jaxx46 wrote: »

, sweetcorn seems to be holding its own although I fear for it in this wind.
Jackie x

I staked one of my sweetcorn plants and re planted one because of the wind over a week ago. Have just come in from staking all of the rest as they took a battering last night.
Spring onions now ready to pull, swede and turnip seedlings have appeared. Finally having success with raddish. :j I think I was not watering then enough but since the rain they are sprouting up really well. At least I know what to do for next year.:T

pinkpig08

Well I've been on holiday for a week and back at home we had loads of rain so my neighbour said she only had to water my plants once! Have looked around the garden and my tomato plants are doing better than I thought they would. I planted them out rather late and thought they wouldn't grow much more. Most of them are flowering but no toms yet. Had a look in my 'blowhouse' that hasn't moved in the storms we've had - my peas have sprouted! My lettuce have sprouted into seedlings too. Am I ok to move them? I read that you should plant them where you want them to grow, but when I was putting the seeds in the plantpot a few more escaped so I have about 9 or 10 in one pot so could do with seperating them really.

GarnetLady

Hey all and welcome newbies. :wave:

Some new pics from my jungle!


Gardener's Delight


Alicante, I think.


Ferline


Beefsteak



and


Dwarf broad beans


Leeks, silverskin Onions, beetroot and carrots, carrots, carrots!


Vales/Emeralds. You can just about still see the potato bag under all of the foliage. Just hope there's some potatoes in there!


Pumpkin which is in serious need of repotting. Male flowers are now opening, after I lost the female one of course, but looks like another female is ready to open, so fingers crossed.


Greenfingers. One has been a little damaged by a mildewy tendril.


Female F1.

ETA - I think I need to stop using photobucket, it seems to randomly resize my pics as it feels like it.

lolly5648

Great pictures GarnetLady. Glad to see your tomatoes are as green as mine and the beefsteak look identical. Will they ever turn red?

I love being able to compare pictures of veg. Mine are all being grown outside so they always seem behind those grown in a greenhouse. My cucumber are doing well, I have had two good size ones and four more are at different stages all from the same plant. I will put my pictures up soon.

Chimera

Just been out and picked a load of french beans, and noticed I have first courgette growing and first teeny cucumber!! Good Times!!