The highs and lows of growing your own dinner 2015

Dizzy_Ditzy

Second page :eek:

This weekend we have SEVEN different veg on our plates :eek: :j

Brocolli, carrots, peas, potatoes, cabbage, broad and French beans

No room on the plate for meat :rotfl:

Jazee

Morning all. I have two red tomatoes! I moved all the tomato plants last night as I think they were struggling in direct sunlight though. They're a bit leggy this year.

Garden still not quite as I want it, but we've identified another spot to dig a new bed (for winter veg) and judging in the veg section of the garden competition is this week.

Other than that, I seem to be weeding all the time.

zafiro1984

Jazee wrote: »

Morning all. I have two red tomatoes!

Jazee you should be :j:j:j

unrecordings

I'm a little while away from tomatoes - the most far advanced is getting a darker shade of green, maybe with a slight hue of orange. First raspberries are a couple of days away I think. Picked blackcurrants a few days ago. Waiting on peas, beans, potatoes, carrots that are six months old...

Dizzy_Ditzy

I had the first of the autumn raspberries today

There are things that people grow and pick that don't make it past their front door. What's yours?

Mine is raspberries. I can't help myself, they are just so bloody lovely Make it past my front door?? They don't even make it to the allotment gate :rotfl: :rotfl:

WantAnOrange

queen of cheap, ours is peas! My two year old will perch on the bottom step with a handful and happily eat them all. She must have had an extra portion of veg this way every day for weeks now.

Jazee

These don't always make it indoors: strawberries (never), broad beans, peas.

Final tidy today before judging, just more weeding really. Don't think I'll find time on Mon/Tues as paid stuff during day and weather can be unpredictable so today it is.

unrecordings

I'll happily munch away at blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, peas, beans, tomatoes, chives & the odd lovage leaf

Scottish_Mike

None of my raspberries make it to the kitchen - every morning I identify ripe ones on my garden inspection, as well as the ones that are likely to ripen during the day, and check back on them that evening. Just so the birds don't get them!

I've been getting my Beechgrove on and doing potato experiments. A couple of weeks ago I harvested 2.3kg of Charlottes grown from 2 seed potatoes in a 30L tub. This week I harvested 3 seed potatoes planted in a 40L bag, and got a disappointing 1.3kg. I'd planted them about 2 weeks later, but subsequently harvested them 2 weeks later, so thought I'd get as good a yield, if not better, but from looking at them they were still quite small, and I'd say I should have given them at least a couple more weeks.

So, 2 seed potatoes in a 30L tub is looking like the best option at the moment. Interesting these experiments!

zafiro1984

:Just clicked onto the 'newlook forum' I really don't like it.

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