As I said in my intro, we're well into growing our own. Fish asked what we've got in, so here you go:
Spuds, earlies and main (can't remember what varieties, usually do International Kidney, Nadine and Pink Fir Apple, but got to nursery too late this year)
Toms (Gardiners Delight, Alicante, Marmande and some hanging basket cherry ones)
Beans (runner, French, climbing French, Borlotti, Ying-Yang, Kenya and butter)
Cauliflower
Kale
Sprouting broccoli (not tried this before, think it is a bit like purple sprouting)
Parsnips
Kohl Rabi
Carrots
Climbing peas
Jerusalem artichokes
Radishes, rocket and lettuce
Spinach beet
Herbs
Strawbs, rasps, black/red/white currants, goosegogs, plums
We're really lucky having such a big garden (narrow, but 200' long) and a plot on the parish allotment immediately behind it. Just need this sodding rain to stop before the weeds take over!
So what's on your plot?
squirel killer
ive lost my plot lol
no ive got runners spuds early late cabbage and broadbeans
welcome to the shed
fish
busy man! lucky having an allotment so near too! mine is 20 minute walk away over 5 fields!
i have a plethora of stuff in,this last 2 years ive started only growing what we actually like instead of all manner of weird stuff!
this year ime growing :
jerusalem artichokes,
onion
30 ft of french clinbing beans (blue lake)
60 foot of spuds (pink fir apple)
40 foot of runners
80 foot of carrots( eskimo and globe)
25 foot of beetroot (boltardy)
60 leeks (musselborough)
rhubarb tonnes of!
60 foot of peas (hurst greenshaft)
40 foot of radishes (red baron and french breakfast)
100 foot of broads beans (dreadnaught and aqua dulche)
20 foot of swiss chard
10 greyhound cabages
10 red jewel cabages
12 sprout plants
24 broccoli plants
80 foot of autumn bliss rasperries (aprox 500 canes)
5 goosberry bushes
10 black currant bushes (ben conan)
2 red currant bushes
6 foot of wild rocket
6 foot of pick and grow leaf
tonnes of herbs
5 prple haze bushes..........
so theres plenty to do! worthy of trying is the woven type weed suppresant fabric saves hundreds of hours hoeing!
heres my brassica plot WEED FREE!!
fossil
any chance you can tell me where the allotment is, as i'd like to pop round later in the year, most probley at night with a torch !!!!
death stretch
and a nice big hesian sack i hope tell you what say when your goin and il give you a hand to carry it lol joking one side theres a gurt big alotments in our village but trying to get one is vertualy impossable i feel verry sorry for any grower who suffers at the hands of vandles or thieves there working class folk trying to grow there owne grub in all weathers our allotments keep getting raided if i had one i would be waiting for the bastards and it wouldnt be a spud gun either
confused
Well done you guys, i still aint got a lotti yet, last year i thought i'd won a watch when i was "given" a 1/2 allotment by a pigeon racing man, who only wanted a bit for his loft, i got stuck in and planted it up, a good wekend s work, just as i was standing back admiring my handywork, he arrived with a mate and said change of plan !!!!! , i,m keeping it for myself now, well to cut a long story short ,i now dont have an allotment ,and he's no had any luck with his racing season , (a lot of ferral cats in our local power station !) i 'm on the local council list, but that can take forever, i grow some stuff in containers ,and me and the kids at school have a few things going on, runner beans, broad beans ,peas, carrots , raddish,turnip ,beetroot, and about 60 spuds , we are growing 5 toms , a cucumber and a few pumpkin potted out in the greenhouse , seems a shame that most of the veg is ready when the school is on holiday for 7 weeks july/august! oh well i wont let it go to waste ,.
fish
heres the first of my produce this year:
wont be long till the fruits are ready too!
hare basher
looking good fish are they from your own mixtures of soil haha
fish
yep ive got nirogen rich soil!
hare basher
good stuff that lol
yoggerman
youl defo taste the difference between those veggys and the mass-produced shop ones
