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Message 1.Â
Posted by zoomer44 (U14019069) on Monday, 18th July 2011
I'm ever so pleased with my mangetout this year didn't expect so much from so few plants and actually got sick of eating them so dug half the plants up to make room for something else. Peas early and petit poui seem to have mutated into mangetout, they were all planted together but these two seem to have produced nothing.
Potatoes in bags have done well, courgettes, cues, lettuce, radish, spinach, toms and beetroot are still going strong. Garlic is strung up in the kitchen, a freind actually asked where I'd bought it from she's always wanted a plat of garlic
I've been picking onions and shallots from the garden for a while.
Red currants and gooseberries did well for the first year. I'm still waiting for blackcurrants and the white ones did nothing. Only one bowl of blue berries but I beat the birds to them this year. Strawberries did well although something else also had a feast.
And the season isn't over yet I can't wait to see the results of the longer growing stuff to come to harvest. My sweet corn is getting quite tall but no cobs yet.
One or two disappointments but these have been outwieghed by what's grown well.
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Message 2
Posted by thedogcody (U14659366) on Tuesday, 19th July 2011
Zoomer44
Blueberries ,tayberries raspberries. redcurrants all did well ,runner and french beans picking but could do better- greenhouse tomatoes still green
-probably dont grow enough eatables- grass and flowers- my father-in-law always used to say you cant eat flowers-but I like them!!
and praise to the chickens who produce over 30eggs per week and give us a bit of pin money and so much pleasure
Tried potatoes in bags a few years ago- bit disappointed those- pictures of a bag full of pots trifle exaggerated- with more time on my hands might revamp the garden for next year.
Anyway you have done well so you get a
and
from me
Geoff -
Message 3
Posted by zoomer44 (U14019069) on Wednesday, 20th July 2011
Looks like we are the only two!!!!!!!<
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... here's to your fruit may you have lots of success with your flowersand hope the chickens carry on laying. My gardens far to small for them
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Message 4
Posted by northwards (U14324094) on Wednesday, 20th July 2011
I just wish I could join this thread, but...blight on the potatoes (no surprise with the weather we've been having) mice in the strawberries, blackbirds in the blackcurrants, garlic not bulbing, peas sulking...I could go on but won't depress you. Anyway, congrats to you both - glad someone's doing well in this awful growing season.
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Message 5
Posted by flyingferret (U14504398) on Wednesday, 20th July 2011
I've had a great year so far. Petit pois (first time i've grown them) and mangetout been prolific. Runners and climbing french beans late but now starting to produce. Carrots, beetroot, brocolli, chard, salads all great. Potatoes in sacks (mostly Annabelle which is like Charolotte but with less leaves) have been wonderful - not sacks full, but good size and really tasty.
The unheated greenhouse dripping with cucumbers (so many I can't give them away) and tomatoes just starting to ripen.
Sweetcorn and squashes to come - I hope.
Even managed to get some strawberries and cherries this year before the birds.
Only failure has been blackcurrants - got some aphids early in the year and never fully recovered.
Feeling pretty smug! -
Message 6
Posted by Lisa (U14598429) on Wednesday, 20th July 2011
The sugar snap peas have been great and there are still loads of them despite me picking at least one every time I am outside and some to actually cook. The garlic is coming along nicely - I've dug up the first 10 or so bulbs and there are probably another 20 in the ground. I do like my garlic. The strawberries (all 5 of them were lovely) and there are a few runners so we might get 10 strawberries next year! The kale is looking good too. That was my first time growing all of these. Oh and chard!
The usual suspects (tomatoes. chillies & courgettes) are all coming along but it has been so wet and cold I may not get loads from these this year despite the greenhouse.
The jerusalem artichokes are not far off 6 feet tall now so I hope there will be loads of them for me to dig up in the autumn. -
Message 7
Posted by Engineer (U3135859) on Thursday, 21st July 2011
Hi Zoomer,
Despite the spring and early summer bringing almost no rain at all here (S. Leicestershire), all of the watering I had to do is now paying off!
Early spuds have a smaller crop than usual, but carrots (5 kinds), parsnips, onions and shallots are all doing well. French and runner beans are now cropping ok, as are the sugar-snap peas (far too many - must try freezing some!) Sweetcorn is 4 to 5 feet tall, but no sign of cobs forming yet. Squashes and pumpkins are now setting and a few toms are starting to ripen in the GH.
What I'm particularly pleased with is the fruit. The autumn before last, I planted a family pear tree, a family apple, a plum and large-fruited blackberry in the back garden, with a peach in the front (which is a bit of a sun-trap.) I didn't let any of them produce fruit last year, but let them do as they pleased, this. The plum ('Lizzie') produced a huge crop (it was literally covered with blossom in early spring) of fanastically sweet fruit; I highly recommend that variety to anyone wanting a small plum tree. I still can't believe the peach is actually giving sweet, edible fruit in this country! The apple and pear 'family' trees have both grown-on well and have a dozen or so fruit each which are maturing nicely. I don't know why it took me 25 years to consider growing fruit though - I've grown just about every variety of veg there is!
Cheers -- Bob
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