2023 - the good, the not so good but hopefully not ugly of growing your own!

KajiKita

Thank you for all the kind leek comments 😊 I am quite chuffed as not only is it a good crop, but I have harvested and consumed every one this year! 

Soup x several (including some in my new soup bags in the freezer), vegan ‘cheese’ sauce and leeks tonight and two portions more chopped and tucked in the freezer for other ideas 😊

KK

ancientmum

I levered myself off the sofa and planted half the potatoes today, using Monty's suggestion of planting individually in six inch deep holes.

Those leeks look great Kajikita, mine didn't really get beyond the pencil stage, but I'm trying again this year.  I thought that the ones I planted out a couple of weeks ago had disappeared, but rediscovered them today after weeding the bed!  Also weeded and watered the garlic.

My purple sprouting broccoli is sprouting at last, I have already had one picking and one stalk is bolting so I'm leaving the flowers for early pollinators.

sammy_kaye18

Well I've been out today and cut down the planter I made. 
I used old pallets and did 2 pallets by 1 pallet but it was pallet height (if it was laid on its side) and was proving a pain in the backside to fill even with a friend bringing over garden waste from her gardening business so I have cut it in half now so its lower to work with and hopefully will fill easier. 
I'm off to pressure wash the path, and my deck once I have googled things to make with left over wood in the garden and hoping that my son remembers to bring me home screws! 
Oh and I also need to finish taping the poles in my greenhouses. 

kacie

I've been given 2 large strawberry planter bags, does anyone know if I could put an asparagus crown in them instead? My beds aren't ready for asparagus this year so I planned to buy crowns next year instead, but if they'll grow in these bags I'll buy then and put them there this year. 

carinjo

My leeks still looking like blades of grass, not sure why they not getting thicker. I've thinned them and will feed them tomorrow.
Finally got the potatoes in the ground. Was the fasted dig, plant, water, i've ever done. Only had an hour to do a 6m row, saved time by filling up the holes with compost. 
Off this weekend, hope to catch up with some jobs.

KajiKita

carinjo said:

My leeks still looking like blades of grass, not sure why they not getting thicker. I've thinned them and will feed them tomorrow.
Finally got the potatoes in the ground. Was the fasted dig, plant, water, i've ever done. Only had an hour to do a 6m row, saved time by filling up the holes with compost. 
Off this weekend, hope to catch up with some jobs.

Your leeks are busy making roots. Once they are good and thick, they will start thickening up from the roots up 😊

KK

Soontobeoap

Afternoon was spent in the garden after DH had cut the grass. It was a beautiful blaze of yellow. Do lots of dandelions mean very fertile soil? 🤦‍♀️. Anyway stage 1 of dandelion dig out started before they get "clocks" and sow their seeds all over the garden! I dont think we could take any more and their roots were all entangled in my favourite plants. Veg area nearly ready to go, still about 20 of the darlings to remove and weather forcast not looking too good for tommorrow. 🥴. I must sow my flower seeds and get veg garden going but at least I have made a good start. Oh and our cherry bush is covered in blossom for the first time since we planted it 3 years ago. I have some fleece to keep tbe birds off but not sure when it needs to go over it. Also just bought a load of strawberry frames to lift the fruit off the ground away from the many resident slugs! 

alicef

Glorious weather today.  We were out late the previous night so perhaps weren't as proactive outside today as could have been.  2 of the 3 eggs of the polytunnel nest have hatched very recently.   

I watered the seedlings and thought about pricking out...but I did sort out canes for the broadbeans and pea sticks for the peas.  I've sown the pumpkins but not the other squashes.  Need to sort out which of the tomato plants I will keep.  

The oregano and nicotiana seed I got with the GW mag. have germinated already!

MissRikkiC

I have these too @alicef so I’m glad to hear this 

alicef

@MissRikkiC - my seed sowing life veers from
a) new seed packet sown - 2 days later  oh my goodness germination what I shall I do, I have no room! 
to...
b) seed packet nearly a decade old - 1 month later ...why haven't you germinated, damm you