Garden produce

catznine

Have just picked some lettuce and spinach leaves, baby spring onions and some radishes so first salad from the
garden :j. Just waiting for my tomatoes and cucumbers! They are there on the plants, just need to grow a bit more and ripen! I have 3 garlic bulbs just coming through and a couple of carrots I planted for fun. The courgette plants that survived the slug onslaught have yet to produce flowers but hopefully will soon. I have just put some more radish seed into a large pot, they are easy to grow this way, grow very quickly and I try to replenish them every 2-3 weeks.

mink35

I've got tons of tomatoes (probably something to do with the fact that I have 30 plants :eek: ) just turning the light green colour before ripening.

Ate some chard and peas from the garden with Sunday lunch - never had chard before and still not sure about it! Will have to try a different cooking method.

Everything else looking good at the mo - radishes, lettuce, broccoli, leeks, red onions, runner beans. Rhubarb can just about be picked (got a crown from my s-i-l) and I have about 3 raspberries :j (Only planted this year!) and several apples on my little apple tree.

I also have one lonesome little victoria plum on the tree I rescued from my mum's garden after she died last year - still at least I know I've not killed it off! (My plum tree still too young)

gemmaj

I've just planted;
Spinach type stuff (Leaf beat or something??), lettuce - cos and rocket - in a grow bag, and 1 each of tomato, pepper, courgette and squash in 2 large containers.

Wish me luck!!

Loadsabob

mink35 wrote:

I've got tons of tomatoes (probably something to do with the fact that I have 30 plants :eek: ) just turning the light green colour before ripening.

I also have one lonesome little victoria plum on the tree I rescued from my mum's garden after she died last year - still at least I know I've not killed it off! (My plum tree still too young)

Wow - you're doing well! I have seven little green plums, the first year I;ve had fruit from it, so keeping it watered and loved!

You're well ahead of me on the tomatoes though, I only now have flowers starting...I hope I wasn't too late. Mine are outdoors...just didn't get to them before now!

Everything else is working out though, lettuces looking lovely (though I think some are trying to bolt; my fault, I had them cooped up in extreme heat!), some cabbages transplanted and looking nice. Parsnips well and truly protected from the horrid slugs (Plastic beakers over them as cloches!).

And I found some chives and parsley at the farmers' market, as my herbs have amounted to nothing this year!

mink35

My toms outside are about at the same stage as yours Loadsabob - it's the ones in the greenhouse that are going great guns!

I'm jealous of your 7 plums!

rchddap1

All this is certainly interesting reading as next year we are thinking of putting some toms outside. Its good to know what to expect. OH dug up our potatoes today and he is well happy with his little crop. I suspect that we will grow some more next year. Is there anything that I can start to grow now....ie, to fill the space that the potatoes came out of?

JAMIEDODGER

OMG!!!!! i have my first little green lettuce seedling poking out of the compost!!!! i feel so proud!

squeaky

Which reminds me - I MUST start saving egg boxes again. They make brilliant seed pot tray thingies - and the cardboard egg cup bits can be used directly in the ground. Just carefully peel/cut/tear the bottom off and plant the whole thing. That way there's minimal disturbance to the roots of your seedling.

Liney_2

JAMIEDODGER wrote:

i have just decided i would like to start growing some of my own food...but its june already. can anyone tell me what would grow from now in pots (as i have no diggable garden available and no greenhouse as yet!) my nan gave me two tomato plants and they are growing quite happily in pots in a sunny spot in my garden!! any help would be wonderful...i was hoping potatos but am i too late?

From seed you can try Radishes, cress and rocket, there are even some late sowing peas which I am going to try, all in pots.
You maybe able to buy some small plants from your garden centre or other things, like cucumber, tomatoes and celery even strawberries (alpine ones are tiny but delish!). Good luck!

Jet

I haven't looked at my veg patch for 2 days as partner has been watering it.

Went at looked this morning and wow, what a huge flower one of my courgette plants has - I couldn't beleive it. 2 days ago there was no sign of any flower, today there it is!

Everything else seems to have had a growth spurt too.

It's sooo exciting!! :T