Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

Pre-war_babe_33

Totally envious of your beans John - or should I say Mrs John. My french bean plants grew all of two inches before they were eaten by snails - three times! I`ve decided to give up on them now. All ten pepper plants went the same way as the beans too. Rhubarb has all rotted away and the gooseberries are being taken by birds - oh what a long tale of woe this is.

On a brighter note I have had loads of broad beans, strawberries, a few raspberries and plenty of blackberries showing promise for some time later.

Today I found my first tomato just starting to ripen which should be ready for a taste test in a few days time - if we get some sun. The plants are getting dragged down by the weight of the fruit now and there are still more flowers appearing. I am just leaving everything to get on with it and just nip out and do a bit of harvesting whenever the weather allows.

Most of my seeds didn`t get sown at all and are still in a box in the fridge waiting for next year now. At least that will mean my gardening budget will be quite low next year so that must be a good thing.

oldtractor

strawberry plants look good and healthy but fruits are rotting. Currant bushes and gooseberries doing well. Rhubarb too. Raspberries coming along nicely. Potato plants looking good. Rabbits eating my leeks and celery. onions bolted and gone to seed. some roots have bolted. brassicas growing nicely. peas and beans very small not doing much neither are the sweetpeas.

annie123

Still raining with thunder too now

djohn2002uk

annie123 wrote: »

Still raining with thunder too now

Real thunder or the look on your face....:cool: I gave you your 13000 and 1st thanks....Whoo Hoo..AMAZING

TallGirl

Right finally some pictures from me when the rain stopped. So wet here but not doing too badly. Not done the lawn I think its too wet.


This is a pot of climbing french beans with a sad tomato in the middle (I dont really like tomatoes so not too unhappy about it). Beans have loads of flowers on it.

This cucumber I am so proud of as it has two fruits

Both this size plant was grown from seed.

I think this trio has turned out really well all grown from seed. Pot 1 has Marrigolds and cucumbers (very small ones). Pot two is mini sunflowers and Nasturiums pot 3 is climbing french beans and Marrigold.

Peas and sugar snaps have had loads alread. Behind that potatoes (eaten more than 1/2 and my blackcurrant bush which is almost ready to harvest.

Drea

Lovely pictures

I'm feeling a lot more positive after a day in the garden with sunshine! Have got loads done and have cut off more chillies than I know what to do with!

mrbadexample

I've had my first kohl rabi, and very nice it was too:



Never grown it before so pleasantly surprised.

djohn2002uk

Looks like a Beetroot gone wrong. :-)

Angelfeathers

Plants looking great, John and Tall Girl!

Had to ditch the rest of the first batch of turnips yesterday. We'd had two tiny but yummy ones a few weeks ago but I'd left the rest in to try and grow a bit bigger. But they were bolting like mad so I pulled them up and they were still tiny but hard as rock and completely inedible. What a waste! Just hoping the second lot will be better, if any survive the slugs/ants/whatever's eating them. :-(

Beans are coming on, though. Lots of pretty red flowers on my runners, and a few on the rest.

Oh, for the record, I have a couple of flowers on one of my outdoor peppers, though I'm not expecting it to do much!

And I have a couple of gigantic strawberries actually ripening nicely, along with a few more normal sized ones. Possibly the rain's working in my favour there as the birds aren't coming out to eat them!

Loads of tomato flowers but no fruits yet. I probably need to do some ruthless pruning there, though, as they're all growing madly and probably a bit too close together.

Brassicas doing well. They're about the only plants that seem to be behaving normally this year!

mrbadexample

TallGirl wrote: »

This is a pot of climbing french beans with a sad tomato in the middle (I dont really like tomatoes so not too unhappy about it).

I'd be sad too if I had to share my pot with French beans.