2015 Growing Season..

Honestly Loli,
you'd be best to camp out in the GH overnight for a couple of months....
Jenny

 

So much for Fort Knox Loli! Perhaps it would be best to take everything away apart from the rings at the base....... the slugs will probably sprout wings then!

 

Planting out the Leeks and Lettuce

 

Dug up some of the King Edwards today, looking good. I'll get some pics tomorrow. Is this early for maincrop potatoes? They were halfway between a golfball and a tennis ball...let's say they were cricket ball or snooker ball sized.

I'll be honest, I'm only semi conversant with sport ball denominations.

 

Mix some salt and vaseline and smear it on the frame work near by,its lower than your leaves so hopefully they will not venture any higher x

 

I harvest Main Crop "for the table" because we have enough to then also have "plenty to store" ... so up to you Spuds are cheap to buy, in Winter, particularly from Farm Shop in large sacks. They are hard to store (mine sprout by around XMas), so better to let the farmer store them for you in cool store - unless provenance is why you are growing.

 

Picked the first of my 'Cucino' bite sized cucumbers today, also the first Gardener's Delight tomato.

 

I have come home from dog sitting at my parents and my broccoli has flowered. Have managed to harvest some tho but i sowed purple sprouting broccoli and well i dont think i have that

 

Got some more of the winter brassicas planted out this evening.

Sprouting broccoli 'Late Purple', winter cabbage 'Tundra' and spring cauliflower 'Medallion'.

 

None of my Kale, Land Cress or PSB have germinated Mizuna has though

 

Planted my Leek 'Elefant' on the weekend in the new garden, yay!

 

All the summer veg are in full swing now.

Today's harvest.
Tomatoes; Gardener's Delight, Beefmaster, Alicante and Rosella.
Cucumbers; Cucino and Passandra.
Courgettes; Jemmer and Green Bush.

 

Nice one Trunk

 

Gorgeous Trunky. Those little tomettes at the front look moreish... are they as sweet as they look? Are they the Rosella?
Jenny

 

They are Rosella Jenny. Very productive too, those in the photo are today's crop from just two plants in the greenhouse.
They're not as sweet as some other cherry varieties, a bit more tangy in flavour, but very pleasant none the less. They have a good firm texture too, not as 'squishy' as other varieties.