The all new 2019 growing your own thread!

euronorris

Oh, also sowed a couple more peas (they are fast cropping variety) and beetroot. I meant to sow some more spring onion and carrots, but the seeds were not in the bag I brought down to the garden with me, as I had expected! lol

zafiro1984

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

I also have 4 of each colour - and a yellow cucumber!.

Yellow cucumber? I'd be interested to know more.

Just catching up on the last 4 days postings - things are moving a pace, love the recipes, I'll know where to look next month when I'm over run with courgettes.

I know its not veggies but we went to London last Thursday to see a play, I decided I could never live in a city, people are like ants running around, give be greenery and open spaces any/every day. Occasion - 50th wedding anniversary - hard to believe Mr Z has put up with me for so long.

Everything is growing fast, I seem to be spending more and more time watering. Just started to pick salad things mainly leaves and herbs. Someone on here and I can't remember who priced up everything she picked to see how much she saved - I may have a go at doing the same this year.

Primrose

The trouble with time of year is that I wish I had more growing space to grow all the things I'd to grow and experiment with but you realise as you get older your physical energy realities simply don't keep pace with your aspirations.

So I'm trying to grow small batches of things we like to eat and will grow less, even if that means I won't be giving so much away to the neighbours. And will be planting less closely so that ai have space between rows to hoe instead of the laborious process of getting down on my knees and hand weeding.

baggins11

Welcome Vintagetea!

Congrats Zafiro on the big anniversary. I hope the play was good. I feel the same about cities these days. I lived in London 20 years ago but I couldn't do it now.

In veg news I haven't done very well at successional sowing so I need to get better organised. I have just gone out and sown beetroot and spinach so lets hope they get growing quick as my spinach has already bolted.

This morning I looked out of my kitchen window and was delighted to see that our resident buzzard was sitting on the tall corner fence post watching over my veg plot. I often see him perched there if I am up early enough. Later on he moves to one the high trees or goes further afield.

I like to think he is guarding my veggies for me but I realise he has a different agenda.

Pablosmummy

I am trying to successional sow this year, but I'm really not organised enough lol, my first pot of lettuce is nearly done ( use it as cut and come again) and I have sowed some more in modules but a few weeks too late so I'm going to have a gap and I'll have to actually buy some.
Decided yesterday I've had enough of the shady side of the garden, the grass doesn't grow next to the fence, it's just all moss and weeds so I widened the stone border ...alot... ( Our inventory says stone border..it doesn't say how wide ha) it looks so.much better now and I have somewhere to store the kids toys without wrecking the grass or taking up the patio space hurray! I am certainly feeling it in my back and legs today though, ended up with what feels like a trapped nerve so I'm hobbling this morning.
Oooh also saw what looks suspiciously like a runner bean in with my peas, I can't think how a runner bean seed would have made its way across the garden and planted itself on the end of a row... I'm beginning to think I had a spare and just threw it in there...

CAFCGirl

Morning all,

Welcome VintageTea such a shame about your PYO farm. They're getting increasingly few and far between. If probably pick what's most expensive to buy outside the farm or what's less available. I love mixed currant jam. I've never been able to grow enough to do anything with.

I am on a mission today, and this week in general. The plot is looking an awful mess. So today I want to clear two interbed paths which are knee high with weeds, cover them with newspaper to keep weeds down and pray there's still some wood chip available. Then I plan on adding one of the larger beds, and I'm going to plant out my cabbages in there. The large bed next to that has been covered, and is my proper attempt at a no dig bed. It needs a little more newspaper, the veg peeling pot and old chicken bedding scattered down on half. Then will recover and get some compost this week to add on.
That bed will hopefully become a squash bed by the weekend.
So that's today's big goals.

Should I have any energy left whatsoever, I need to weed my onion bed... LOL

It's somewhat cooler and there is a threat of rain later this lunchtime but I will persevere because it needs to get done.

Kantankrus_Mare

Welcome Vintagetea :j

I had a couple of hours at plot yesterday. Picked two punnets of strawberries!! They were delicious!! We are away on holiday from next Thursday so Dad can have all the pickings while I am away.

Im another one who didnt quite get the sucessional sowing of lettuces sussed.

I have a trough in the greenhouse with cut and coma agin and have had 3/4 pickings from it. Might get another couple.

Sowed a row outside and they are only just showing so maybe time to get another row on the go.

CAFCGirl

One pathway cleared, and the large bed cleared out and that's all I managed.
Stupid malfunctioning body.

Rains came and I trudged off home berating myself, and feeling all round pants.
Nothing's looking particularly healthy, for an unknown reason. May try and give them all a feed to pep them up. My soil is most likely really lacking. So it won't hurt to give it a bash.

zafiro1984

Primrose:- I'm doing exactly the same, only growing what we eat and trying to keep up with succession sowing.

I've just started more salad leaves, more mange tout as the first lot has started to flower, more radishes - the first lot is being picked, more kohl rabi as the first lot has just started to swell, I'm also on my second lot of carrots.

I don't grow a lot of each at each sowing. I mainly start things off in modules and as soon as they go outside I sow the next lot.
I find 10 dwarf beans at each sowing is sufficient - I have three lots on the go. The first lot is just starting to flower, the second lot was planted out yesterday and I sowed 12 more inside today as a couple usually fail.

Obviously some things just get one sowing, sweetcorn and tomatoes come to mind but I do succession sowing of carrots, dwarf beans, lettuce, fennel, beetroot, radish, mangetout, kohl rabi, celery, - i'm sure there's others.

Is anyone thinking about autumn and winter crops yet? i usually start next month but I think I may cheat this year and buy some plants instead of growing from scratch.

CandyB101_2

I've just realised I forgot to plant my onion sets .. is it too late now?