Who grows their own food?

sammyroser

I'm learning as I go, Started two years ago just growing shallots which were reduced to 10p to clear and I loved watching them grow and having something taste so nice for so little effort!

Last year I planted tons of strawberries, a raspberry cane, green courgettes and potatoes.

My raspberry cane died Still don't understand why, the leaves curled up and turn brown.

My potatoes got blight! Learnt to plant earlies from now on, although I caught it early and managed to eat the potatoes which had grown.

Strawberries did well for their first year!

And courgettes were massive success! With hardly any effort I have about 30-40 courgettes. The flowers were inedible though as they were full of tiny black bugs

This year I have planted 5 new raspberry canes (unfortunately I planted 3 in the place the old ones died not realising these could have the same fate.)

I also got a small greenhouse so may have more luck growing things from seed! Working well so far

Green courgettes again as well as yellow and a sunburst squash.

8 sweetcorn plants.

My first Rhubarb plant! (so excited by this)

One green gooseberry and one red gooseberry (also had an extra green gooseberry so put in my largest pot, as it's on the patio in more sun it's getting along happier then the other two)

Moved my strawberries into a large wooden plant/raised bed (it hasn't got a bottom). Still get plenty of sun but when I cut them back at the end of the season I'm not left with 10 pots of sad looking leaves for the rest of the year.

And finally I've planted sugar snap peas, I wasn't planning on growing peas so had to buy these from the garden centre rather than growing from seed, but I had one of my climbers die off due to the strange weather (and my lack of experience) and was left with a very empty trellis so figured for £2 it was worth a try (for that £2 I ended up with 16 sugar snap pea plants) As these are a dwarf variety I also put a couple in pots with some canes to support some growth.

I am also trying to grow tomatoes but they are about 3-4inches tall and have done nothing for the last month

So there you have it! My very long (hopefully not too boring) Story about my garden

Forgot to mention 2 years ago planted a plum tree! So far haven't eaten a single plum (second year had tons of fruit but the birds got them all)

BJV

We do, all the family, kids as well.
This year we have masses, This year we have a huge poly tunnel ( peppers etc , even trying baby sweet corn ) and we are even progressing to free range chickens. I think its important that my two little ones understand where food comes from and can understand the value it has.

As well as that I really do not think that there is anything better that picking the veg and eating it minutes later the taste is amazing!

Del_Astra

"As well as that I really do not think that there is anything better that picking the veg and eating it minutes later the taste is amazing! "

It always amazes me each year how different things taste out the garden, we are picking our own letuce now and it really does taste so much better than the stuff you get in the shops. Can't wait for the toms and cuc's

Invalidation

We grow Pak Choi, various other oriental greens in out home mad polytunnel, Spuds, Tomatoes, chillies LOADS of herbs, beans, peas and after using a load of Mushroom compost had a fine harvest of mushrooms earlier this year

abitofhelp

I would just like to add to my earlier posts that i now have a peach tree. Oh bought me one yesterday and we also came home with a cucumber plant & 3 sweets pepper plants. Its a dwarf peach tree and i drasticly thinned the fruits yesterday after repotting it.

heirloom

We grow lots of different vegetables as we have a large veg plot by the house (been doing it three years). Apart from the usual we a trying baby achocha, Quinoa and some older tomato varieties this year. Yesterdays Dinner salad came straight from the garden, you just can't beat homegrown veg for freshness, purity or price:)

floss2

On my allotment I've got blackcurrants, raspberries, strawberries, spuds, leeks, onions, shallots, garlic, beetroot, rhubarb, caulis, cabbages, brocolli, purple-sprouting brocolli, salad leaves, lettuce, fennel, peas, french beans, sugar-snaps, tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, btternut squash, aubergines, chillies, peppers, plus lots of herbs (some things are in the greenhouse!)

cootambear

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We are growing potatoes,carrots, lettuce, radish, red onions, garlic, tomatoes. chilli's, Broad beans, peas, broccoli, curly kale and beetroot, raspberries,blueberries and black currants.

We have 3 raised beds and plant a little of everything, I bought the potatoes,chilli's everything else was a gift or free seeds.

I also have a tiny fig tree that I bought last month it did have a little fig growing on it, but the dog ate it yesterday it gave him really bad wind, I would say serves him right but we were the ones suffering:rotfl:

This is only our second year of growing our own, and I would say to anyone just give it a go, you don't know if it will work for you unless you try. I have no idea what I'm doing I just read the back of the packet and hope for the best, mostly it seems to work.

agreed, thats my mantra

twiglet98

Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, loganberries, apples, a tree with really sweet little fruits that are like plums but golden yellow and smaller... cherry tomatoes, courgettes, sweetcorn, butternut squash, lettuce (Salad Bowl Red), radishes, beetroot, carrots, purple sprouting broccoli, kale, leeks, potatoes (only earlies), sugarsnap peas, broad beans, climbing french beans, spring onions, garlic, trying onions for the first time... oh, and herbs, parsley, mint, thyme, sage, chives, tarragon, rosemary, basil, oregano, feverfew, lemon balm...

Having mixed success and still very novice, all a steep learning curve but one home-grown strawberry is worth all the sweat and tears!

jennypennysaver

This is my first year of growing veg and we're growing cabbage, broc, leeks, sweetcorn, courgettes and separate plants just for the courgette flowers to experiment with (that'll be interesting!), lots of different types of toms & chilli peppers, sweet peppers, cucumbers, peas, strawberries, raspberries, eating & cooking apples; also different herbs, a lot of which are for companion planting and some just because I like them and I like to have the bees buzzing around. I think that's it I'm trying some of the toms in hanging baskets with basil.