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

Suffolk_lass

Here we have come to the end of the main productivity and it is time for us to re-engineer our veg garden. We are going to invest in taller raised beds and fit the fruit cage I bought last year, into the same space. I will "see" you next year

KajiKita

@carinjo so pleased to read your update on the allotment and being able to keep it in a different format - it sounds like it has really lifted you 😊

KK 

ancientmum

Carinjo, I'm pleased you can still keep your allotment after all the work you and your wife have put in, and I hope her health improves.  The council here ask only for evidence of cultivation and plots vary from mainly flowers to intense veg production.   Mine is somewhere in the middle.

Kantankrus_Mare

Great news Carinjo about keeping your plot going. I know I would be gutted to have to give mine up.

So....we are at the end of the season, or is it beginning of the next one? Tomatoes are coming to a stand still, Ive got my over wintering onions in and need to get my garlic in this week.

Failures this year for me have been onions, sweetcorn and butternut squash, the first and latter I normally do really well with. Best things have been raspberries, cucumbers and courgettes as ever.Green beans have also been a surprise productive plant. Ive got spinach and salads still going on in the green house and have moved all my blueberries out of pots and into one bed with plenty of ericateous compost.. Its a bed with plenty of sun in the summer so hopefully will get a better crop next year. My ferns on the earlier planted asparagus are beginning to brown ready for cutting back and Im really hopeful for the future of this crop.

See you all next year for hopefully another productive year. 

Suffolk_lass

Now is the time to spread well-rotted farmyard manure on your veg beds (assuming you don't plan to have a BBQ next to them on Christmas Day). The worms will pull it down and any smell and too-strong burning material will have dissipated by the time we plant next year's veg. Merry Christmas everyone!

silverwhistle

Suffolk_lass said:

Now is the time to spread well-rotted farmyard manure on your veg beds

If you live near the sea a few tubs of seaweed might be an idea too. I use on my spuds (as in the Channel Islands) and asparagus. If it's been on the foreshore with falling tides for a day or two salt shouldn't be a problem.

Dizzy_Ditzy

*waves* 

new thread for 2024 is up and going. I’ll close this thread down in the next day or so 🙂

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6495370/the-ups-the-downs-and-the-insides-out-of-growing-your-own-in-2024/p1?new=1