The highs and lows of growing your own dinner 2015

Living_proof

zafiro1984 wrote: »

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

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A lot of us will stick with the green!

Jazee

Judging delayed till next week now when DD will be the chief waterer so I hope it all looks ok. Although I've come to the conclusion that a garden used for growing veg is never going to be perfect.

Had my first ever courgette yesterday (homegrown) and my - they taste so much better than shop bought ones.

moneyistooshorttomention

I was a bit late into things - due to work needing doing on the garden first.

But - starting to feel a bit more like it yesterday - when I harvested strawberries (again....) and two other types of berries. Think I will start picking lettuce today. I can see some chard starting to come along nicely and some apples on their way.

Don't quite understand why one of my plum trees has very little fruit and the other one hasn't got any at all (hopefully its just down to them still being pretty young trees - think they are now 3 years old).

I'm wondering what nice traily green plant I can put up along a garden wall that has something edible in it for me. Doesn't look like I've got the right conditions here for the grapevine I always intended to have when I finally got a "proper" garden:(. Am now a bit stuck as to what I shall have instead. Thought I'd got it all worked out when I spotted chocolate vine and can see that's in a noticeable number of "my" style of garden - until I read various complaints that its distinctly invasive and will pop up feet away from where its been planted.

Back to the drawing board - and now wondering about more exotic spinach type things - now what was that I read about Caucasian spinach again?:think:

unrecordings

Things progressing here, not necessarily for the best. The Courgette Onslaught so far hasn't happened - the ones in the greenhouse and the hanging baskets are producing mainly small fruit that tend to go yellow and need picking before they go manky. The plants outside are getting decimated one by one by the slugs. Had a bumper crop of blackcurrants, raspberries are coming through now, and picked my first peas today (Blauwschokker), the supermarket dried peas (Leo's Peas actually) although initially eaten by slugs have come through and are producing pods. They have a fairly low habit (maybe 12-18" so far). Potato haulms in my first bed beginning to die back - i'm tempted to have a furtle around in there but must resist...

Narc0lepsy

Got back after 2 weeks hols. Neighbour has watered greenhouse as promised, but doesn't seemed to have helped himself to any produce which was disappointing. Loganberries/tayberries are a bit over-ripe; still yummy with yoghurt so we've had them the last 3 nights and think I've caught up with the ones which are just too squishy to freeze. Ate a few mange touts before I went away, but as none were picked this fortnight they aren't going to make new ones I don't suppose. Had a few yesterday of what's left - more pea than mange tout but very nice. Much to my joy, the broad beans still have that 'new' taste; I feared I had missed them - presume neighbour doesn't eat beans!
Strawberries had been a bit nibbled by slugs, but ok although small.
White and redcurrants ready to pick, as are gooseberries........it's going to be a busy weekend.

Narc0lepsy

And such excitement; I have a few mini butternut squashes. That's a first; in previous years they have made tiny fruits which promptly died. It is the greenhouse ones which have squash on, no sign from the outside ones yet. and lots of cucumber flowers but no cucumbers yet, which is odd. Picked a few tomatoes. Peppers doing well.

zafiro1984

Living_proof wrote: »

A lot of us will stick with the green!

How do you get back to the green?

Jazee

Garden is a mess, judging is this week and it's pouring with rain.

Ken68

zafiro1984 wrote: »

How do you get back to the green?

Click on the link, then item 3 on Andrea's post.Should take you back auto.

zafiro1984

Ken68 wrote: »

Click on the link, then item 3 on Andrea's post.Should take you back auto.

Managed it, many thanks Ken