Who grows their own food?

mummybearx

Our radish are now ready for picking, had some that last two nights sliced onto a salad, mmmnnn! Also picked some baby lettuce leaves, lovely and tender.

Growing lots of other things, red onions, green beans, peas, parsnips are in for winter, potatoes are flowering, strawberries and raspberries are coming along, squash, tomatoes, different chards, cabbage, brocolli (I think), as well as half a dozen herbs and a bay tree. Plus other things that I can't remember just now lol

DH keeps telling people we are preparing for Armageddon :rotfl:

So, who grows what? x

Possession

I would like to, but I seem to be the kiss of death to plants.

Isaac_Dunne

I've always wanted to grow my own vegatables but been a bit weery of starting. I don't trust the british weather enough to provide me with the correct weather I'd need for growing...

mummybearx

We are in central Scotland, so far the weather has killed two courgette plants and our french bean plants, but that's it.

TBH we planted loads of things, all the things we like (just remembered we also have spring onions, leeks and garlic), we have been really lucky that so many things have worked out. We bought one of the 'walk in greehouses' from MrT's for £35, that's been brilliant for bringing on lots of plants.

One neighbour next door has now planted lots as well, and the two neighbours on the other side already grow lots of things, so we are getting lots of help and advice.

But I swear my DH is out talking to the plants like Prince Charles, willing them to grow :rotfl:

Isaac_Dunne

I was thinking of getting an indoor garden, so I could grow anytmie of the year, and not have to worry about the weather, the normal plants in my garden are struggling with the immense heat at the moment so I'm hopping they can hold out till it all cools down again.

Sambucus_Nigra

Yes - and my job is teaching other people to do it as well. Currently trying to house about 200 tomatoes and 300 chillis and peppers whilst I work out who is having what. And that's not even starting on the cukes, pumpkins and squashes - or courgettes. There's alot of greenery in my world!

abitofhelp

mmmmm let me see, we have a two cherry trees, one plum tree & one fig tree. yellow & red raspberry canes, blackberry & loganberry. Blueberries & gooseberries, all the currents apart from pink. Strawberries. A small asparagus patch, borlotti beans, runner beans & broad beans. Spinach, swiss chard, florence fennel, beetroot, spring onions, lettuce , courgettes, butternut squash, parsnips, swede, cucumber, tomatoes, chillis. No potatoes this year or onions, though i have got a bit of space left so i might buy some red onion plantlet things i have seen for sale. Also have purple sprouting broccoli and cabbages as seedlings. I think i have listed it all.

joe_purdy

Im having a go at growing 2 different types of tomatos, chillis and peppers. If they are sucessful im hoping to grow more next year

joe_purdy

oh and we're trying to grow some pumpkins ready for halloween

abitofhelp

forgot to add radish. Not doing leeks or garlic this year either. Also have lots of herbs & flowers. Planning to put in some cooking apple trees in the autumn & put in a pink current bush.

Butterfly_Brain

We have iceberg lettuce, rocket, spinach, tomatoes, cucumbers, new potatoes, courgettes, marrow, pumpkin, spring onions, peas, runner beans and radish plus I am trying corn this year as well Herb wise I have sage, rosemary, thyme (which is just flowering) and lavender also a few rose bushes so that I can use the hips to make syrup or jam. I have seeds for cauli cabbage and brussels plus some king edward potatoes that we will put in around the middle of August. Fruit wise we have strawberries, loganberries, raspberries, a pear tree, cherry tree and hazel bush that already looks like it will give us a lot of nuts and we have put an apple tree and blueberry bush in this year (MIL &FIL have already got both of these plus, tomatoes, Rhubarb and a hazel bush) our neighbours grow fruit and veg too have apple and plum trees and we have lots of wild damsons, sweet chestnuts, blackberries etc in the hedgerows about 10 minutes walk from here and swaps take place over the garden fences every year :j