Vegetable Growing 2024

A couple of mine look as tho they are going to split too.I occasionally get the odd 1 or 2. Maybe due to it being a very wet early spring, ( this is a guess)think down south was pretty wet too?Mine are still in the ground but can see the stalks splitting. I was taught rightly or wrongly to harvest them about 3 weeks after the scrapes appear ( I only grow hard neck). I will lift mine in about 2 weeks. By harvesting then there is still quite a lot of green top growth and was told harvesting them before the top growth dies back a la onions was to enable them to store better. Certainly mine do store well in a pretty cold outbuilding. Have only just finished last years, a few were beginning to sprout but perfectly edible.

 

Interesting, I've always applied the thinking of onions, the longer they are left to finish growing the better, but you might be right. The scrapes appeared on mine over a month ago and I cut them off.

Mine usually start to shoot soon after Christmas, at which point I peal them and freeze them.
I guess temperature and variety might make for slight differences.
I planted mine on October, I wonder if I was a bit too early.

 

I'm not growing as many Potatoes in bags next year, my Daughter is
on a diet and my Grandaughter won't eat them.
I will probably have enough to see me through until December.

 

Just thankful it's not our first year of vegging we'd have been really discouraged.

 

Oh don’t cut the scrapes off Pete. One of my favourite things to do is try and pull the scrapes out without them breaking, pull slowly!. If you achieve this you get a very satisfying “pop”. They are very tasty to eat, tasting of mild garlic. Very nice raw chopped up in a stir fry or with potatoes and lashings of butter. I too plant in October, maybe try next year to harvest a little earlier.

 

I did try pulling them out but they snapped off, I usually just cut them off.

 

Picked my first cucumbers and runner beans today.



Here they were a few moments ago.







The cucumber plants (Marketmore raised from seed) have not grown much before bearing fruit. Usually, they would have bigger leaves with thicker stems before bearing fruit.

They are interplanted with cut and come again leaf veg callaloo (amaranth).

 

@misterQ a very fine harvest. Our cucs are only showing tiny fruits at the moment. Our different beans are really doing very badly this year. Managed to harvest yest more radishes and salad leaves from the polytunnel. The broad beans though are looking good for harvesting soon (at long last).

 

Last of the mangetout and the first picking of carrots to go with dinner tonight. Slugs/ snails obliterated a couple of rows of carrots

 

68 more garlic picked, artichoke softnecks. Still have 20 creole hardnecks and 30 silverskin softnecks to go. These were two weeks later than last year due to the appalling weather

 

And more of you are showing such fabulous harvests. Carrots? @Scroggin ours are only just showing leaves. Mangetout? germination at the moment is still nil.
@Hanglow your garlic looks brilliant. Ours was poor this year.
Maybe we will get some better produce as the weeks come.

 

I think we'll have 50 cucumbers ripe at the same time in the next 2 weeks. 1 tomato.
I sowed some Mrs Burns Lemon basil and they have geminated, not looking at all basil like. Other varieties doing well.
Courgettes may even flower by August.
We have a flower or two on the runners.
French and borlotti given up the ghost.
Chillies? Pah.
I can't even blame the dogs this time.

 

MisterQ,

Could I ask when you sowed the amaranth?
Mine is tiny so far this year. Maybe I sowed too late.
Had them huge the year before last, but not too good last year.

 

Went to harvest my two beds of broad beans over the weekend. Complete fail. Both beds completely covered in black fly.

My first sowing produced some beans. My second sowing, absolutely nothing. I've ripped up the plants and planted more sweetcorn.

 

I haven’t grown much this year but the courgettes are forming! I hope they like rain as that’s what they are having this week.