The all new 2019 growing your own thread!

MysteryMe

Picked my first raspberries from the free canes from the council. Very nice to eat, with plenty more yet to ripen. I have given them a good feed to help them along.

CAFCGirl

Planned in a few hours up the allotment today.
The weeds are probably missing me LOL

I want to weed two beds minimum and get in where the raspberries are to see if there's anything. Would also be happy to get another pathway lines and hopefully there's some wood chip at the stores I can use. I might risk throwing in a few more seeds. I'm hoping against hope that the potted plants I left up there last time are still holding on enough to be planted out

Pablosmummy

It's so hot today! Humid, horrible heat though.
Well my garden seems to be recovering ( please don't let there be more hail in these storms we are due!) Need to pinch out a few of my runner beans before they escape over the fence today, picked a few of my remaining strawberries and the first few raspberries which were amazing and there is new growth an all of my tomatoes and two of my pumpkins! I'm amazed things are recovering so well.
Ooh also need to pinch out my peas and make sure everything is well secured before the bad weather hits.

euronorris

Nature is amazing pablosmummy, and often far more resilient than we think it will be. I'm so glad that some of your plants are recovering nicely for you.


My raspberry can never amounted to much. Certainly no danger of any fruit appearing. It must not like it's spot in the garden. Oh well.


The strawberry plants that I bought earlier in the year are looking healthy now, but they have taken a while to recover from drying out whilst we were away for our holiday in May. There is currently only one fruit on it, and no new flowers. We did have some new fruit inbetween, but it was tiny, shrivelled and never grew properly. A knock on from drying out I think. Am hoping that they will start producing again soon.


The tomatoes all have plenty of flowers on them now. Does anyone know how long (roughly), they take to set and turn into fruit? One of them looks like it's set, but the fruit is taking it's time to appear and swell. Just wondering if I'm being impatient (likely). lol


Oh, and Sainsburys have got lots of garden supplies reduced if anyone is looking for any bits/replacement hose parts etc.

unrecordings

chemo week here (blood test permitting) - so I'm hoping to deploy my nematode army tomorrow then take it easy for a week

full hutton criteria (blight) forecast here for tomorrow but that might change because it's fairly cool & misty here rather than the torpid will it/won't it thunder kind of weather that I associate with blight

in fact is that assumption correct ?

to anyone recently signed up to blightwatch I'd log in and check the forecast, because I don't seem to be getting the emails (unless you only get them on the actual day of full hutton criteria - which means I'd get my first alert tomorrow)

euronorris

Just picked up a whoopsie pepper plant (that is flowering nicely - it even had a fruit on it, but had been eaten by something), and a whoopsie cherry tomato plant from Asda. Both had obviously suffered with a lack of watering at one point, but have clearly recovered well. There is plenty of fruit on the cherry tomato plant


I wanted the pepper plant, as my peppers haven't recovered as well as I would have liked from the hail storm a few weeks back. Still no flowers on them. The plant I picked up has LOADS on it

zafiro1984

Re - collapsed seedlings, managed to save 36 leek seedings but I've binned all the rest and spent and hour or so redoing everything.

Also sowed some carrots outdoors- the ones to last over winter. Weeded the onion patch and asparagus patch.

I'm starting to get on top of things after not being able to do much last year and it feels really great. However, the fruit cage is another matter - more like a jungle but I'm not going to beat myself up about it. I'll wait until the summer raspberries have finished and then take it slowly. I can't find my blueberries and I know they are in there somewhere but I did find the gooseberries, prickly things aren't they!!!

Kantankrus_Mare

Returned yesterday from our 10 day break away. (Cornwall and Bath)

As soon as we had got the washer on and cases empty, we nipped to the plot to see if my father has been looking after things in my absence. Well he hasnt done a bad job.

Everything still alive and amazing what a difference a week makes!

My sweet peas are laden with flowers, we picked four punnets of strawberries. The mange tout has taken off and producing pods. Tomatoes appearing and flowers on peppers and chilli. Even my aubergines are doing well!

Only thing I am disappointed with is my courgetted plants. They are still alive and have grown but nowhere near as big as they should be.
I will get some courgettes eventually but as its one of my favourite things, I am disappointed.

Popped again today and lifted my garlic. They arent huge but have left them somewhere dry to dry out. The spinach has gone to seed so picked all I could as we need some for the dish we are making tomorrow night. Got plenty more on the go.

Wonders will never cease.......I think I may also be eating my first home grown spring onion in a week or so. They are doing really well. Also picked a punnet of raspberries (the first of the season)

Im back at work tomorrow for two days but am itching to have a few hours down the plot. Its my happy place. Just love it :T

Sounds like you are all having some good success too.

Jazee

Currently harvesting strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, broad beans and lettuce here. Cucumbers are coming along nicely, and there are flowers on the tomatoes.

Primrose

I smiled at K Mare's report of her first activities after returning from holiday. Same with me too. I can barely dump the suitcases before I'm rushing off out into the garden to see how everything is performing.


They say Absence makes the heart grow fonder and yes, it's amazing what progress can happen in a week away. You may not notice the change day to day, but certainly in a week away you notice how much things have grown and advanced.


Of course there's always a negative aspect too. One year I went away on holiday with a fantastic long row of tomatoes all nicely formed and with the prospect of some bulk ripe pickings on our return. When we got back I was confronted with a row of black and dead plants laden with rotten black fruit. The deadly Blight had well and truly struck! A whole year's crop completely lost.