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The even bigger and better and hopefully not lower bits of growing your own in 2022!

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Welcome to the new ups and downs of growing your own!
Everyone is welcome. Come and tell us about your growing shenanigans
What do you like to grow?
Are you going to try anything different this year?
Did you try anything different last year? Did you like it? Would you grow it again?
Do you have any tips for growing?
Do you make anything with what you grow?
How much does growing your own save you?
I'll use this post for links that folks might find useful. If you want something adding in, please just let me know
There's a fab Facebook group called "Allotment Club - Mind your peas and cues" I'm not affiliated to it in any way but it's a fab little group. It's a closed group but is worth looking up if you're on Facebook. Or there is a fab group called "The allotment shed"
Everyone is welcome. Come and tell us about your growing shenanigans
What do you like to grow?
Are you going to try anything different this year?
Did you try anything different last year? Did you like it? Would you grow it again?
Do you have any tips for growing?
Do you make anything with what you grow?
How much does growing your own save you?
I'll use this post for links that folks might find useful. If you want something adding in, please just let me know
There's a fab Facebook group called "Allotment Club - Mind your peas and cues" I'm not affiliated to it in any way but it's a fab little group. It's a closed group but is worth looking up if you're on Facebook. Or there is a fab group called "The allotment shed"
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2021 was a good year in lots of ways - Calabrese was my greatest achievement- it tasted fab!! 😍
Lots to do in 2022 - garlic is in, broadbeans sowed in the autumn are doing well - going to get my seeds potatoes in the next couple of days to start chitting 😊
Bulk Buy fund for 2024: £600/£600 🙌
Debt neutral fund: £11.27/£1000
Weight loss challenge:
1st quarter starting weight: 9st 9lbs
2nd quarter starting weight: 9st 7.2lbs
Wholefood plant based diet start weight: 9st 5.6 on 9/5/23
GC - Annual Target: £3000 - Running total:£827.81/£3000
Jan: £100; Feb: £108.31; Mar: £71; Apr: £229.50; May: £225; Jun: £94; Jul: £0; Aug: £0; Sep: £0; Oct: £0; Nov: £0; Dec: £0
Bulk Buy spends: £200/£600
The worst (growing) part of 2021 was losing all my tomato plants to blight. I had experimented having them in the gardens and not the pop up greenhouse. In turn I also lost my winter spuds as they popped up at the wrong time as the last of my toms failed.
My successes have been everything else I grew and I've ended the year with winter food too.
I also have two fruit plots with fruit trees, fruit bushes and strawberries.
The plans I have are to:
- grow root veg; spuds, carrots, parsnips, turnips.
- onions; leeks, cooking onions.
- greens; peas, kale, spinach.
- annual herbs.
- garlic.
Christmas dinner was wonderful, all the veg was grown by me and the meat was locally reared.
I've still got enough seeds for 2022 and also have gardening vouchers, which I used to fund my fruit section this year.
On way to work, so will do a proper list on another day.
Newbie to this thread but common visitor to the Green Fingers MSE
Been growing for over sixty years so have seen many phases come & go, from DDT the wonder insecticide to Irish peat the super compost ingredient that came in large compressed blocks.
Last year was a waste of time for me, it seemed at times every slug south of the M25 came along for a munch at my garden, lost all my beans to them, in the past like many I’ve been giving them away
I did plant some new dwarf apples & a pear, so 2022 should see me tasting them for the first time, 2022 will see me decrease my veg growing and increase the flower growing, mainly due to health I find the bending, lifting etc. difficult now so it’s easy maintenance items for 2022
Had a great year last year but disappointments were sweetcorn which never amounted to anything and butternut squash which all turned out to be pumpkins.......cany even remember where seeds were from.
Aims for the coming year are: grow more ginger.....which was a great success for first attempt last year and grow more peppers rather than cucumbers. Can only eat so many cucumbers but peppers get used so much in our house and will freeze.
Happy growing everyone!!
Current mortgage: £167,750 (03/23)
Goal: £145,000 by 02/2025
End goal: Mortgage free asap!
For more bats try & grow flowers that open in the evenings, they will attract night inscts / moths which in turn will attarct the bats. Evening primrose & night scented stocks are two easy ones and no doubt many others as well
Here's the leaflet about how to encourage bats in your garden:
https://cdn.bats.org.uk/uploads/pdf/Resources/Encouraging_Bats.pdf?v=1541085349
Current mortgage: £167,750 (03/23)
Goal: £145,000 by 02/2025
End goal: Mortgage free asap!