2016 Growing Thread

Plants looks healthy and yummy..

 

Today I harvested the last of the aubergines:

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they havent really ripened properly this year - I should have put those plants at the front of the greenhouse ; still Ive had 4 or 5 proper fruit & those will go in the end of year sauce - cant complain really.

Also started to harvest the tomatoes & other odds & sods for the end of year sauce - cant complain about these but I have to say that the plum toms are no better than the ones I get in tins.. and cost more to produce so I think that next year its just the sweet little salad toms for me:

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Finally, another batch of Nargas from the chilli plants, Ive already made over three litres of hot sauce this week which all sold (for the RNLI) so I think these go into flakes & powder later in the year:

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Bought my overwintering onion sets today, 80 plump, firm Senshyu sets for £2.28 (35/£1) from a local hardware store where they weigh out what you put in a brown paper bag, hope stores like that continue to thrive.

Tomorrow they'll get planted where potatoes have been harvested, been doing that for nearly 30 years, and be followed by a load of saved garlic cloves. The onions will be planted through Mypex, but I've decided garlic are probably better in open ground.

 

My first attempt at Kelsae, and still growing

 

Nice one Kazza





Squashes and Nasturtiums are fighting it out on Sis's patch, not sure which one's winning

 

Potatoes, onion, spinach, chilli and beans, all from the garden, only thing from elsewhere are the Linda McSausages and the tandoori powder

 

Despite getting the blight, the spuds are storing ok in the clamp

 

Has anyone planted their garlic for next year yet? Im thinking early purple white this week,too soon?

 

Tomorrow

 

Oca

 

Yep, I planted mine last week.

They went in where the communal coriander had been.


My two-thirds share of this year's harvest.



Last year's plan was to grow and eat the green tops just like spring onions but I couldn't eat them fast enough before rust took hold.

So, I let the bulbs swell. The foliage was seriously infected but when the exterior layers were peeled away, you get some tasty tender scape-like stalks inside.

I planted about 25 cloves from this year's harvest - still not sure what variety they are, though.

 

Planted half last week [1], second half going in over next few days. Autumn planting Onion sets planted last week in September.


[1] They included some Elephant Garlic cloves dug up in 2015 that I hadn't got around to using (as I had so much of the stuff) but were still firm and OK to use.

 

I have never grown garlic before and have only just thought about it for this year, after reading posts on here. Do you just break up a bulb from Tescos (other supermarket garlic is available) and put in the cloves....or have to buy specialist ones? I looked at local garden centre but no sign of garlic cloves or anyone to ask.