What are you growing this year?

[summerdays]

Well as of yesterday - frog spawn

And the broad beans and garlic have been in since the autumn at home, but we have just got an allotment as well but it needs a lot of digging. So far we haven't put anything in there - but intending to do potatoes and squash and fruit bushes so far.

And started off the tomato plants yesterday in the greenhouse.

 

[biggs682]

Spring cabbage , brocoli and leaks have over wintered and starting to grow nicely . potted up 2 lots of early pots . not sure what else but carrots will a yes and some variety of runner beans along with some tomatoes

 

[riggsbie]

I am on my third crop of carrots (I'm in Oz), peppers are going well, fennel grew ok but no decent bulbs but the heads were aniseedy..... Just planted some chard.....

I am using raised beds on my balcony......

The stuff in the back garden gets decimated by snails, slug and possums......


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[Arch]

My sister and her partner have just hit the top of the list for an allotment, so they have a virgin patch to play with. Any suggestions for good first time growing?

The even have a greenhouse on the plot - alas, there's no glass in it!

 

[gavintc]

Sadly, with my lack of exercise this year, I am simply growing fatter. Bouncing back and forward from Italy is not conducive to a routine for fitness training.

 

[riggsbie]

Carrots !

I do not have green fingers the carrots seem to go well every time.....

Cabbages and broccoli and cauliflower went ok but the blooming cabbage white caterpillars feasted on the leaves.......


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[Mad Doug Biker]

This always reminds me of George's allotment and the nuclear waste dumped on it in Drop The Dead Donky.

'Anyone want some soup?'

 

[rich p]

Spuds are chitting, garlic going well and broad beans too.

Arch, broad beans are easy and do reliably well. They taste much better freshly plucked like a nubile, young...Whoops, sorry.

 

[Archie_tect]

....old.

 

[palinurus]

My sister and her partner have just hit the top of the list for an allotment, so they have a virgin patch to play with. Any suggestions for good first time growing?

The even have a greenhouse on the plot - alas, there's no glass in it!

Yup, broad beans are pretty easy to grow. Onion sets- nothing to it, stick the wee onions in the ground and wait 'till they become big onions. Potatoes are pretty easy and satisfying to harvest and eat- perhaps go for a couple of varieties you can't get in the shops. Squash and pumpkins and the like are great because you can grow them on a weedy patch. Many types of climbing beans are pretty easy to grow. Few leeks for the winter- again pretty reliable, but they need to be transplanted (it's not tricky- they just need moving to a different area when they get established, dib a good hole and drop the little leeks in).

 

[Gromit]

Don't know what I'm going to do this year. Contemplating hiring a Rotavator for the first time this year, just to get the allotment looking good as I'm not going to be able to dig it over.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

How easy is perpeptual spinnach... for the garden/greenhouse??

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Easy for the garden, does not need greenhouse, but watch out for pest, sloughs and the wee flies that eat green leaves ... uff

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Thanks. And of sunlight??


Acht, I should just look this up, but since I'm here, I might as well ask!

 

[buddha]

I dug over an old compost heap yesterday, and found a load of potatoes growing, so I might leave it and see how they do. Looks like Rooster's, so they'll make excellent chips!
Apart from the usual veg, I've decided to change the back lawn in to a summer meadow, and spent the last 2 weeks digging it over, and over again.