2017 GROWING THREAD

Ok, then that rules out roast/microwave
So: boiled/mashed/steamed or stir fry?

 

Boiled then

I'll go for my favorite serving suggestion, "why not serve with asparagus tips and a knob of butter"

 

my poppies will be a mystery.

 

Got my bit of the plot weeded and raked over where I could



Tiddies are up


Sank a bucket with no bottom in to keep the mint under control.

 

First Strawberry flower

 

I've been having a sort out of my seeds, haven't found the ones I recently mislaid but found the Bridgwater Beans given to me by @Zigs How are they grown?

 

You keep some in your pocket, then sneak them into flower pots or bean poles at Shineyland

That's one behind I in the pub

Same as runners really

 

Are the whole pods eaten when young, mature seeds dried for later use, or both?

 

Both

 

Sowing so far:

Basil 2
Broad Beasns
Carrots
Celery 2
Chillies 3
China Aster
Corriander
Fennel 2
French Beans
Leef Beet/Perpetual Spinach
Leeks 4
Lettuce 26
Nicotania
Parsley
Parsnips
Peas
Radishes
Rudbeckia 3
Spring Onions 2
Statice
Strawflowers
Sweet Peas 2
Sweet William
Tagetes
Tomatoes 19


Numbers are different varieties. Everything so far sown indoors, using propagators where required (5 x Sankey 50w Plantmasters) and using my big growlight box to boost light levels. Next month I'll put the greenhouse heating on, bring my 6th Plantmaster into use, together with a 600mm x 1200mm thermostically controlled heat mat and 2nd growlight box.

Only 4 days before it really gets going

 

Dashboard garden is coming on



3 Kelsaes, 2 plum tomatoes a wild strawberry and a pot of chives reduced to 5p at morrisons

 

Sowed parsnip on the plot
Just sowed (cuz I didn't do it when I said.. naughty, naughty)

cabbages x3 types (not rootclub resistant so not for plot)
swede invitation
par-cel
celery x 2
Hamburg parsley
flat parsley
perpetual spinach
Spinach
spring onions
tomatoes x10 types
garlic chives
bog standard chives
chard silver something
digitalis laviegata and lutea
ricinus communis /castor oil plant

more latana camara, rudbeckia choc fudge (other ones have had 100% germination!?) cosmos picotee, penstemon, malva, last of the salvia forssakoli seed - all no shows or I'm too impatient, take your pick.

Peas x 3 in gutters tomorrow and carrots x 4, long ones in pots and short ones on plot and some pickling onion on plot.

 

Just a small update.




You will be happy to hear that most of the radishes survived, although, on the downside, the regimented straight lines have gone somewhat awry.