2016 Growing Thread

Sowed the Tapeworms that @"M" gave me



Bottle for scale and moral support.

Done over half the weeding

Think the Parsnips might have gone to seed



Rhubarb responding even better for being heaped up with compost again in the winter



One of the tiddies failed to launch, but others doing well

 

I just had a gut feeling about them

 

LOL...o rosso



So for lunch I had a baguette with this, spring onions, tuna, anchovies with butter and tomato purée. Kiwi fruit and yoghurt

 

that sounds yummy.

 

Sowed another of @"M" s tapeworms, lettuce this time, did another sowing of Lolo Rosso and Basil.



Got the Oca in

 

The chilli forest in the greenhouse is well on its way:

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Also sharing that space are a couple of the grafted plants that I fanced trying - the white cucumber:

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Certainly prolific, but the couple of fruit Ive had so far have been disappointing - it churns out so many flowers that unless I get out there & remove all the non-fruiting ones each night they polinate & the fruit are sour ; the non pollinated ones have been rather tasteless but its early - I think I will pick them small & pickle them. It does have 40-50 small fruit at the moment, but I will probably go back to the normal non-white ones next year.

Also doing well are the aubergines, grafted plants again & they are huge ! must be 20+ flower buds on them (I have two plants) - last year I think I got about 12 fruit from each so looks like this year will be better !

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the challenge now is keeping the pests out - lots of aphids already & Im expecting spider mite to appear if we get another spell of hot weather ; I do get in there & damp it down when I can but Im already resorting to chemical warfare. Its my own fault really for cramming all those plants in ...

 

New potato time

 

Picked the first of the autumn sown broad beans today.

 

Ate me first peas, really sweet

Got 4 rows of Kelvedon Wonder peas in the ground (ta @"M" ) they've been soaking for a few days so are already putting out roots. Sowed the Aspagarus peas, so expecting @Beckie76 round any time soon

 

Asparagus! Did you say asparagus @Zigs you need to give that a good rub down!!! @"M" taught me everything I know honest!!!

 

Lifted the first couple of roots of my Arran Pilot new potatoes today. Still can't beat 'em for flavour, absolutely delicious.

 

Tatties by R MAURINS, on Flickr
This is my experiment with Tatties in growbags, just showing signs of flowers

 

Today's harvest... Lombardo chillies; small and fiery red Apache chillies, mangetout peas, purple teepee beans, green French beans, yellow courgette; wild alpine strawberries (have to tasted to be believed!); winstons industry red gooseberries and Unknown Aldi green gooseberries.