The all new 2019 growing your own thread!

Waterlily24

We've had loads of toms this year and lots of different varieties, I've even made soup to get rid of some lol. Loads of cucumbers too. Only 2 lots of runner beans so far. Plenty of potatoes as well and marrows. We aren't growing all that much this year - forgot about the onions red and white.
The swedes hubby put in aren't going too well though. Spring onions are coming on nicely.

Ganga

I have almost given up with the tomatoes,peppers and strawberries this year,the toms are going brown,the peppers are dying and the birds are eating the strawberries.
On a positive note the the flowers are doing well this year.
PS forgot the two cherry trees i planted last year have produced 3 cherries that the birds have not eaten.
The joyes of living in the NE of England.

Pablosmummy

Picked my first cherry tomato yesterday, the one survivor from before the hail, so the rest are a while behind yet, my raspberries are starting to get flower buds at the top which is exciting and I've had to prune one of my cherry trees as one branch was out of control long.
Apart from that, still waiting. Something ate through my biggest pepper grr but there's a few more growing , I also finally got a pumpkin setting! It's just been really bad timing with the male and female flowers before now but there's is definitely one growing at an amazing speed now, every day it gets so much bigger! Also plenty of room and loadssss of male and female flowers developing so FC I'll get more than one pumpkin! ( Come on Thai pumpkin.soup, I'm waitinggggg)
So at the moment, just alot of watering, picking off side shoots and waiting.

unrecordings

Finally got my Pennard order through today (that's a Szechuan pepper plant & some Japanese ginger). Poor guys seem to have been through the mill just at the wrong time

Now all I need to do is somehow get outdoors and repot these little fellows and pick the potatoes that are gradually being removed by (probably) badgers - been a very frustrating week here. Fish & chips will make it better

Mnd

You have all been busy by the sound of it, and aren't the crops beginning to come in now.

Today we picked potatoes carrots beans beetroot lettuce carrots mint tomatoes so I'm very pleased

Suffolk_lass

Just harvesting at the moment - so many courgettes, runner beans, dwarf beans, carrots, cucumbers, lettuces, radishes and all the onions are out and drying (under cover).

Peppers and chillies will no doubt go red after we have departed for the warmth of southern Europe next month. Tomatoes this week by the looks of it - sungold are going orange

unrecordings

Woke up to a Full Hutton Alert email this morning - anyone else get one ?

Suffolk_lass

Is that from Blightwatch suggesting tomato or potato blight is more likely?

unrecordings

Yep - but it's on a postcode basis so Suffolk not necessarily affected:

https://blightwatch.co.uk

zafiro1984

I usually check each day on the Hutton alerts, today is clear- phew

Some of the sweet corn has fallen over, not only that but something is eating the cobs on the ground before I have chance to prop them back up and tie them onto stakes.

The squash plants have spread so much out of their bed that I can't walk between two of the beds just in case I stand on them.

It looked like I should have had a terrific crop of raspberries after the rain - enough for jam - but they suddenly disappeared - birds? - No it was the daughter and then she had the cheek to say she didn't want any tea as she was full - I said a few carefully chosen words - well she is 50yrs old this Autumn!!!

Picking and freezing runner beans, dwarf beans, mangetout,
Celery nearly ready, aubergines-loads of flowers no fruit as yet, peppers in flower. Tomatoes nearly ready.
Picking and eating, beetroot, carrots, salad things, courgettes, cucumbers

Still loads of things to happen, main potatoes, leeks, squash, and I'm now starting to grow crops for the winter. I had a look at the winter vegetable plants sold by the seed companies, I thought I might get 10 x cabbages as I had run out of seeds. After looking at the price I'm off the garden center this pm for a packet of seeds.

Grateful that he temperature has dropped, it was 35.4C here on Thursday and even higher and quite unbearable under cover - I was watering twice a day.