THE VEGETABLE GROWING THREAD 2018

I had to get my glass in front of my spec's mate ….I thought you'd presented a giant slug

 

yea never had one like that but does taste nice just picked off the bush and had cheese & cue sarnies :P

 

All 50'ish of my coloured seed sweetcorn plants have grown blind and failed to produced a single cob, only tassels at the tops. I blame the drought.

 

My Runner Beans are few and far between, could you email me some of yours?

 

Some progress with the Snackbite sweet pepper plant.



The Physalis peruviana.





The beetroots.

 

I've just harvested about three months worth of Nigella seeds!

 

Good going @JWK. Snap re Cucumbers.2 of my 3 plants have gone ballistic while the 3rd seems intent on producing predominantly males flowers, so few being produce on that 1. Any ideas why? Same seed, same sowing time, all in the greenhouse so clueless as to why. I only ever need the amount off 2 plants but grow 3 as insurance if 1 legs it or misbehaves as this 1 is, Postie has just been and yup away with 2 whoppers.
Sungolds are now in full production and they remind me why we all go to quite a fair bit of effort to grow our own vegs. Gorgeous as usual, Garden Pearls were usefully earlier than the Sungold. Tumbling Toms ok but a bit hard skinned, maybe due to it being so hot?
I don't grow fruit other than apples but have productive verges around these parts. Got about 1 1/2 lbs of goosegogs a couple of days ago, all scoffed by the time I got back to the house and also pigged out on some wonderful be they small wild raspberries. I had a good look see inside them before demolishing as often then have grubs inside the fruits but the ones I found were bug free. I really love gooseberries and am contemplating having a go at growing them. Are they quite easy and do they need a summer like this 1 to perform well? Do the plants need to be of a good age to fruit well? If it's a case of them taking 10 years to be productive I won't bother as I could well be pushing up the you know what's by then

 

Can't remember if I uploaded this but my autumn onions are pretty good, will definitely be growing them again this year.



Have also got a pair of boobies growing......

 

You can't beat a nice firm pair

Seriously though, I've had a few tommies like this lately. Heat distress?

 

No idea.. it's the only one! But I noticed a few strawberries had 2 or 3 pointy tips to them too instead of the usual 1. (Very tempted to put nips then )