The ups, the downs and the insides out of growing your own in 2025!

emsi_b

I have finally sown our peas in the cardboard tubes as recommended by Nancy Birtwhistle. Soaked them for 9 hrs, planted in the tubes- never grown before so who knows how well it will go. I only had 13 toilet roll tubes, so we have 13 seeds planted- how many do people tend to sow for a reasonable crop? And any tips on avoiding the horrid maggotty things that like to burrow into the peas? I still feel ill thinking about podding peas after far too many encounters with wriggly things as a child (my happy memories of podding as a child were limited to broad beans only, that seemed to escape the blasted wrigglers).

greenbee

I have picked VAST numbers of strawberries, and have only tackled about 30% of the strawberry bed. I'm going to have to start freezing them to deal with later!

Spinach and chard also doing well. A few radishes getting there. Peas starting to fatten up (must plant more). 

Suffolk_lass

Finally got the squashes in. Need to up the watering now. Still got flowers to plant (so far behind). Loads (half a 25kg flour sack) of potatoes harvested. Got some breakfast radishes in the fridge in water. Must use some pak choi and plant more lettuce seedlings. Gooseberries are changing colour as they begin to ripen.

carinjo

Last minute push to cover up the red gooseberries before we off to portugal tomorrow (says something that i am happy to spend my birthday pottering around). Sus and neighbours got bags of lettuce. Icicle radish were amazing, even managed to get the teenager niece and nephew to try some. 
All the squashes and courgettes in, the climbing beans doing well. Only one dwarf barlotti bean germinated, so will try a second sowing once we back. Got gifted some cabbage (sherwood f1) and the leeks doing well, even if they were skinny going in.

KajiKita

Looking good @carinjo 😊 Enjoy your trip. 

I lifted my garlic today. 10 standard bulbs and 4 elephant garlic 😊 Not unhappy with that considering how poor the seed bulbs were this spring. 
Shallots looking good, won’t be long before they are ready to lift 😊
I have baby courgettes and cucumbers starting to develop 🤞
Looks like my loganberry might fruit for the first time this year 🤩

KK

Kantankrus_Mare

Been picking a punnet of strawberries a day. Getting fed up of them now so prepped and frozen quite a few for the rest of the year to go in my greek yogurt that I have for breakfast.

So disappointed with the garlic. All leaves died off but bulbs are small and look like some have rotted. Maybe over watering?

Onions doing ok. Tomatoes just starting to form and cucumber looks like it will do well.

Courgettes as ever look marvellous and I think I will be picking some in next couple of weeks.

Had lots of salad and some spinach.

Watering taking up quite a lot of time but find it relaxing.

Farway

Kantankrus_Mare said:

So disappointed with the garlic. All leaves died off but bulbs are small and look like some have rotted. Maybe over watering?

Onions doing ok. 

Maybe White Rot, check this out & cross fingers, it lingers for years in soil

Check onions in case it spreads

https://www.rhs.org.uk/disease/onion-white-rot

Yarmy

Started to harvest my 1st early potatoes, I've grown the variety Casablanca for the first time and the plants that I've dug up so far have produced quite a few potatoes.

fionaandphil

Lots of blackcurrants, strawberries and raspberries here. Lettuce is growing very well too. Tomatoes now growing but still green, currently have over 10 cucumbers on each plant - I forsee a lot of salads! Beans, peas and courgettes all coming along nicely.

greenbee

Lettuce hasn't germinated well here @fionaandphil, nor has rocket. 

Need to pick radishes, blackcurrants, and peas in addition to the endless strawberries that I'm now freezing. I've also discovered some courgettes (I really need to pull up some marigolds so I can see properly). 

Broad beans have blackfly on some plants but not on others so i'm hoping I'll get some kind of crop. Beetroot will need thinning. 

Not much happening in the tomato or cucumber department yet.

Lots nepeta, delphiniums, verbascum, hollyhocks, snapdragons, and sweetpeas need dealing with sometime soon too.