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Baggy
Cake connoisseur
- Location
- Where the chevrons are
Along with the onion seedlings we managed to cultivate...
...a Doogie!
...a Doogie!
Baggy
Cake connoisseur
- Location
- Where the chevrons are
It's been an odd year for growing, the onions were a bit hit and miss in the, tomatoes are doing well, squashes got off to a slow start but are now going a bomb, and a clump of kohlrabi haev popped up from nowhere.
We're also going to try and make cider this year as the apple trees seem to be very happy.
We're also going to try and make cider this year as the apple trees seem to be very happy.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
We're going for the scorched earth policy at the moment in preparation for veg, fruit trees, etc.
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
I wish I could discover the joy of gardening, it's all a bit depressing.
It gets tidied up after the ravages of winter, then the bulbs provide a colourful show. I go on holiday and come home to find weeds have overtaken all the flowers. I dig up the weeds, and up come all the bulbs and misc. flower plants. Now it's midsummer and there is very little colour in my garden.
It gets tidied up after the ravages of winter, then the bulbs provide a colourful show. I go on holiday and come home to find weeds have overtaken all the flowers. I dig up the weeds, and up come all the bulbs and misc. flower plants. Now it's midsummer and there is very little colour in my garden.
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
Our garden has been extraordinary this year, especially the lettuce, garlic, beets, courgettes, bok choi, mizuna, summer squash... and now runner beans, tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, and we have onions, sweetcorn, melons and butternut squash to come. Plus all the herbs. Plus we have put in about 25 native fruit and nut trees, and loads of woodland plants. It is just beautiful here.
In UK, nothing much, a few courgettes (looking a bit parched). The jerusalem artichokes from last year have sprung up again, unasked (we were warned that if you grow them once, you'll never be rid of 'em). Should be a bumper crop of those at least, this Autumn. And Mrs P harvested our mangetout peas. Both of them.
In France, seeing as we're not there most of the time, can't manage the garden properly, but we had a superb crop of apricots this year.
First time that tree has produced anything for several years - I was about to cut it down 
. The peaches failed, as usual, and we missed our cherries, but we should have decent pickings of apples, pears, plums and grapes come the autumn.
In France, seeing as we're not there most of the time, can't manage the garden properly, but we had a superb crop of apricots this year.
First time that tree has produced anything for several years - I was about to cut it down . The peaches failed, as usual, and we missed our cherries, but we should have decent pickings of apples, pears, plums and grapes come the autumn.
Headgardener
Armchair Cyclist
Tomatoes are doing well, water is quite low in the rainwater butt, grass not growing so only need to cut the weeds 
and as I have been away for a week a bit of weeding required. I will post a pic of my tom's when I have found out how 
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and as I have been away for a week a bit of weeding required. I will post a pic of my tom's when I have found out how .
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
A colleague of mine is suffering from a huge surfeit of gooseberries - he's done jam, chutney, crumble, pie, and is running out of ideas.
Looking at the reserve, it could be a good year for blackberries, loads on the brambles.
I picked a good sized pot of blackberries this morning. I'd have thought it had been too dry but they're looking good.
Must be our fourth season on the allotment now. Loads of cherries this year, I've made three batches of jam already (yeah, rock'n'roll!). Probably got about 10-12 kg of fruit. When we bought it it was a two-foot twig, It's a fair bit taller than me now.
Borlotti beans coming along, I'm going to let most of them get big and fat so I can make soup out of 'em later in the year.
Potatoes, courgettes, squash going nicely. Pumpkins going too nicely, we're going to have loads. Onions were small this year, sweetcorn never really got established (last time I tried it was easy).
Grew some cauliflower for the first time. It was really tasty; don't normally like the stuff much.
Next year I will try to grow a decent carrot. Maybe more than one even.
Borlotti beans coming along, I'm going to let most of them get big and fat so I can make soup out of 'em later in the year.
Potatoes, courgettes, squash going nicely. Pumpkins going too nicely, we're going to have loads. Onions were small this year, sweetcorn never really got established (last time I tried it was easy).
Grew some cauliflower for the first time. It was really tasty; don't normally like the stuff much.
Next year I will try to grow a decent carrot. Maybe more than one even.
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In the back garden the blue and white border I planted down one side of the garden last year is going a storm, and has been all summer. Unfortunately there's bare earth the other side of the garden, I was going to plant another border but I got let down by the people I ordered the plants off, I have a fresh batch of plants coming this month from someone else. https://www.jerseypl...il.aspx?id=2044
Out the front the hollyhocks are over six feet tall and flowering nicely. the lavender down the side of the path has been in flower all summer and is attracting lots of bees and other insects, the pots and annuals are giving us some lovely colour, the only disappointment has been the hanging baskets which have been a bit neglected and haven't done well.
Out the front the hollyhocks are over six feet tall and flowering nicely. the lavender down the side of the path has been in flower all summer and is attracting lots of bees and other insects, the pots and annuals are giving us some lovely colour, the only disappointment has been the hanging baskets which have been a bit neglected and haven't done well.
