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

Suffolk_lass

No bees looked at here so I delivered half a dozen little squash plants to my neighbour to make a bit more room for ours that need potting on. Then it was all about weeding. I did most of the onion bed (I can't reach the middle), DH did the front drive ar one end and then came out back and began the thankless task of digging out the creeping thistle that is everywhere, but especially in two areas of lawn. We each filled a large box or bag (75l) before stopping just before 18.00. It was too cold for bee inspections so postponed these until today.

carinjo

Spend most of the day building tomato frames, copying another alotmenteers plans. Inbetween i've got large egg carton trays (from ol10) for radishes and lettuce seedlings. The egg cartons worked a treat last year, perfect for radishes. 

KajiKita

My main crop are in and that spud bed has been thoroughly weeded 😊

KK

carinjo

I am now the proud owner of a secondhand 6x6 greenhouse got on fb marketplace. We managed to dismantle it (what a laugh that was) and got it on allotment stacked and ready to assemble...sometime in september probably. They also threw in rolls of mesh and a lovely work table for free which we going back to collect today. 
It means the tomatoes will have to spend another day in the garden till can plant them out tomorrow. 
Done the first harvest of lettuce in long planter at home, just a few leaves but they taste so much better than shop bought.

alicef

Things are beginning to pile up a bit.  Hopefully by middle of next week over night temps will be high enough to get everything outside.  Aiming to get everything that should be in the polytunnel, in the polytunnel. 

Potted on melons; cucumbers; courgettes; peppers and most of the chillies.  Had poor germination of the courgettes, but it will keep down the number of plants.  Bean poles are up. Beans all looking good apart from dwarf Blue Lake, but still time to make appearance.  My first sowing of sweet corn - very poor germination so far, will have a root around.  Have kept up with the succession sowing of peas and planting out of germinated parsnip seed.  Weeded the new asparagus beds and gap filled with new seedlings.  Planted out the onions apart from one and a bit module tray.  Planted out lettuce and rocket. Sowed masses of sunflower seed.  Pumpkins and squashes need to be potted on - job for another day.

-taff

Resowed my tromba di albenga, the original one had been eaten. waiting for another few days before I plant out the runners which are not runners at all but a flat cornetti bean, yellow, called Meraviglia di Venezia. I really enjoyed them a couple of years ago, what little of them actually grew, so I've sown a good lot this year and hope they survive...

Suffolk_lass

-taff said:

Resowed my tromba di albenga, the original one had been eaten. waiting for another few days before I plant out the runners which are not runners at all but a flat cornetti bean, yellow, called Meraviglia di Venezia. I really enjoyed them a couple of years ago, what little of them actually grew, so I've sown a good lot this year and hope they survive...

My Tromboncino are really slow this year too. I think the beans you like used to be called something else? they are yellow climbing French beans with flat pods if they are the ones I am thinking of. I also grew a similar purple pod - flat and stringless and Italian French beans iyswim

-taff

I don't know them by any other name so I'd be interested to find out. They're about the size of runner beans when grown, so I thought they were to start with but apparently, they don't have runner beans in Italy, or at least not in the part my mother was from...

carinjo

-taff said:

I don't know them by any other name so I'd be interested to find out. They're about the size of runner beans when grown, so I thought they were to start with but apparently, they don't have runner beans in Italy, or at least not in the part my mother was from...

I had a look on Franchi website, and they have several yellow beans, including the one you mentioned.
Finally planted the tomatoes: san marzano, costoluto fiorentino, tigerella. Between the rows seedlings: lettuce, basil. And 2 types of radish in egg trays.

MissRikkiC

@Suffolk_lass did you mention T@M weren’t great for plugs? Tia