The all new 2019 growing your own thread!

unrecordings

Pablosmummy wrote: »

but knowing my luck it's just one giant honking great clove lol

I love the cloves that don't split, it's like a little garlic onion - and absolutely briliant shaved into (you guessed it) ramen

In other news I got my repotting done apart from a) the 'spares' for swapping with neighbours, and b) my courgettes, because I clearly knew that Monty was going to do a feature on them. They're lined up for tomorrow though, and ignoring everything Monty said, I'm planting all six. Three in the 'spare' growbag, three in pots - I'm going to try to get all of them growing vertically

-taff

unrecordings wrote: »

In other news I got my repotting done apart from a) the 'spares' for swapping with neighbours, and b) my courgettes, because I clearly knew that Monty was going to do a feature on them. They're lined up for tomorrow though, and ignoring everything Monty said, I'm planting all six.

You're brave....:)

unrecordings

-taff wrote: »

You're brave....:)

I've had poor luck with courgettes for the past couple of years, so I'm going for it - farcies or bust !

dancing_star

SIX courgette plants? Blimey. Have you got a market stall? Or seventeen children?



I have two again this year, against my better judgement. I think I still have some chutney left over from last year despite giving all my extended family jars of the stuff for Christmas...


Need to get cracking in my garden today while I'm off work and the weather is nice. The French bean climbers are starting to curl up round the teepees, which I think is just lovely. Isn't nature wonderful?


I've picked all the bolted Pak Choi and had far more than I could eat so I have made sauerkraut out of some of it.



And I know flowers aren't strictly speaking grow your own as in fruit / veg, so perhaps off topic, but I had a bittersweet moment. Last year I bought a white patio rose in memory of my grandmother (a Yorkshire lass). It's first bloom of the year poked out on Sunday which was the anniversary of her death. Coincidence I know, but it made me smile.

unrecordings

That's it - make me the courgette pariah :-)

Last year I had four plants, and barely got anything before it started going yellow & rotting. This year, different variety (Romanesco via Mr Fothergill's if memory serves) as the first sowing, from the remains of the last packet failed. Come to think of it, these Romanesco do seem quite vigourous...

Suffolk_lass

unrecordings wrote: »

That's it - make me the courgette pariah :-)

Err, me too! I have eight in - the six swap plants were planted when I wasn't paying attention (by DH). We do have rabbits though...

-taff

You're going to need a bigger rabbit....:rotfl:


Beautiful sunny day today, have sat in the garden contemplating building a building of some kind down the bottom and what material to build it from. Quite fancy wooden frame with that metal sheeting you can click together all over, but any suggestions welcome. It's to store things to start with when the house is rewired, then it will be a sleepover/games/sewing area of some kind depending...that's me daydreaming.....


Am going to put the two cypresses I got outside in the front garden I think, and there's another sneaky sapling gorwing in one of them, so that'll be hoiked out and left to grow somewhere else. Also, I think Dave said he had a fatsia which was a lot of little seedlings, looks like mine is too, so they will also be hoiked out to increase the baby plant catalogue...

Kantankrus_Mare

Ive got six courgettes in. They arent looking too great at the moment but have new growth coming in the centre. Still really small but I know from experience how quick they grow once they get going.

We did a recipe last year for courgette, carrot and feta fritters which were so tasty!! Experimented at freezing and they were fine so a lot of my courgettes will be getting used up and stored for future use. Goes so well with the chilli jam I make once chillies and tomatoes are ready.

Ive never had success with growing caulis from seed so I bought some plug plants a while ago. They are looking really healthy so looking forward to harvesting those.

I need to get my pak choi planted out this weekend and also all my sunflowers which Ive never grown either.

Have had a couple of pickings off the strawberries but hoping for a decent haul with the warmer weather we are promised.

Hope you all have a good weekend!

Primrose

Those courgettefeitters siund tasty and a good way of using up courgettes. Could you post a recipe on here please? I,d rather make use of my surplus one than give them away and they sound Ideal for a light snacky type meal.

-taff

^ what she said, recipe please? And freeze them with greaseprof between them or individually and then lump them together?