Vegetable Growing 2024

I am still picking a few tomatoes every few days, also cucumbers are still coming along slowly.

 

Planted some modules of peas and broad beans as a green manure/cover crop/possibly for shoots if they can grow a bit in any mild weather

 

I'm still getting a few cherry toms from the GH but all the larger ones are finished. Outside I'm still getting a few salad leaves, chard is good, beetroot and cabbage in the cage. The sprouts are forming nicely.

 

We have Savoy and pointy cabbages still to come and the Swiss chard is fnally looking good.

I planted plugs of Savoy, broccoli and kale but they've been eaten back to their stalks which is dispiriting to say the least. No sign of who's doing it but OH didn't net them so could be anything. No doubt if I'd planted some sprouts he would have netted them asap.

 

Having kale stripped by the cabbage white caterpillars last year outside we sowed in the polytunnel this year. I cut back rather than pull the whole plant out and have been so surprised at how quickly the plants send side shoots and so we have yet more kale to harvest.

 

These are just plug plants @On the Levels and I've not seen slugs or caterpillars. Bit of a mystery.

Like you, when growing kale I take leaves as needed and leave the plant to grow on.