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

themadvix

Think my guidance said 30cm apart for full cobs, 20cm for baby corn, so you should be ok. I think I need to build a fruit cage for next year, but also need to get rid of some red currant bushes - 4 is too many!

Suffolk_lass

themadvix said:

Think my guidance said 30cm apart for full cobs, 20cm for baby corn, so you should be ok. I think I need to build a fruit cage for next year, but also need to get rid of some red currant bushes - 4 is too many!

I think ours are about 24-30cm apart and we have grown them before with similar spacing. I agree that 4 is too many red currants 2 is plenty unless you plan to make redcurrant jelly for gifts for Christmas - maybe offer them to others on your allotment site? We have 2 good productive blackcurrants but half a dozen gooseberries. I want to grow a Leveller dessert gooseberry so relocating to a fruit cage will be my justification for ordering one!

MissRikkiC

So jealous of your corns @Suffolk_lass I got 10 from T&M and 2 survived! Really pi**ed off actually! 

Has anyone put their peppers in the ground yet? I’ve planted 3 now and they’re really not doing so well! I have about 4 more but I will probably leave them in pots since they’ve not done well at all  

Got given some lettuce from the garden centre yesterday Which I hope do better than the rest of the ones I’m trying to grow! Not sure if I’ve sown them too thickly but may need to move them! 

Harvested strawberries this week, my daughter is not getting the idea though and keeps pulling the ones which aren’t fully ripe yet! Not a single one made it into the house; nor any sugar snap peas as she’s scoffed all of those too! 

I spotted 2 raspberries today so I took the opportunity to have 1 myself and left the other for my daughter 🥰 so delicious

carinjo

Just been watering the last few days. Got some slug pellets from A1d1s, will see how it goes. Went seed shopping at garden centre: radishes, salad, kale etc. Unfortunately the kale i got in, geminating slower that the weeds, only found one seedling! So going to attempt to start some at home for transplanting. 
Harvested first swift potato growbag at home: 2 seed potatoes gave 14 potatoes, not sure if that a good harvest or not, but just the 2 of us, and that will do for the weekend 

Suffolk_lass

Sounds great to me @carinjo

I am keen to harvest potatoes but DH is holding out (so my butternut squash plants are still to get in the ground.

Following a trip to the mobile van in the next village for T/A steak burgers, I managed to gift 2 courgettes, 2 Crown Prince pumpkins and two butternut squash plants to the chef, who stopped and collected on his way through our village. I love it when things go well and I love giving away a few seedlings that would otherwise be composted

carinjo

Ms C and I pruned the plum tree and attmpted to shape it a bit. Tied up the tomatoes and harvested the rest of the chinese cabbage. The raspberries are the most beautiful dark red colour, snacked on that and the strawberries as we worked.
We also cut the sage right down, was going crazy, ms C sitting in garden making herb bundles for the firepit.
A busy week ahead, but will try and get some seeds in the ground and ms C said she'll do the weeding.

Suffolk_lass

Herb bundles for the fire pit - brilliant idea. We moved four huge pots of herbs so the house could be decorated resulting in the severing of the root through the bottom. Dead thyme and two pots of sage (one variegated and v pretty) and some droopy mint that I think will recover. I may have to copy that for our trip in the moho with friends next month. Scented kindling, if nothing else.

Moved the huge double butler sink back and going to weed, top up compost and plant salad seed in there.

We finally got the Butternuts planted out, together with a couple of pumpkins. Hopefully I can pick them a wee bit smaller this year, having planted out later, as I still have two huge butternuts from last year. I might have to make tarts for the lunch I run to use them up.

carinjo

First thing this morning (yesterday), we gave everything a good soak and feed. Harvested some beetroot, quite small, but perfect for salad. Harvested the second growbag of first earlies (again 7 potatoes per seed potato). Moved a couple of bush tomatoes intomplace of growbags and ms c tied them up for me. She also potted up some herbs got from garden centre last week. 

Kantankrus_Mare

Finally got back on top of the weeding at the allotment after our hols away for 10 days. Even whilst I was laid on a sun lounger by the glorious pool, my thoughts were never far away from what could be happening on my little plot. The strawberries have been fantastic and I have a freezer half full. They will get used for smoothies and overnight oats throughout the year. Raspberries starting to appear but after four years in the place they are at the moment, they need thinning out so after they have finished fruiting this year and all leaves have died off, we are going to attempt to lift one of the rows and put elsewhere on the plot. Hope this works as never moved raspberry canes.
After last years glut of courgettes with six plants.....I have only ended up with two plants this year and they should be ready to pick in a week or so. Lifted my garlic as well yesterday. A little disappointing as bulbs quite small but perfectly formed. I never get consecutive good results with garlic but I plod on with it every year. Might indulge and buy some from the Isle of White Garlic Farm for next year.

MissRikkiC

Oh I’ve heard great thing about that garlic @carinjo I will be planting some later this year for sure! 

I have moved raspberry canes this year, from my friends allotment to my garden and they were mostly fine. I think I lost 1 of 5 however I did let the roots dry out a little over night as I didn’t get around to getting them in the ground the same day so I’d just wrap them in a soggy tea towel or something to keep the roots moist that’s all. 

I’ve planted a few seeds for courgette, butternut, rainbow chard and rocket last week. The courgettes and rocket are through so I don’t think I’m too late with those, just waiting to see about the BS. I’m going to try and grow them vertically due to space constraints although the 1 courgette I started off a few weeks back now is already in flower and I’m not sure how I’ll get it to grow up!

I’ve been picking spinach for salads from the garden and it’s been delicious. I’m sold on homegrown Leaves. 

We’ve had a few raspberries and strawberries, along with a glut of baby peas too which I probably should sow more of but really not sure on where!