What are you growing this year?

[IrishAbroad]

Well apart from the usual spuds, tomatoes, sweet corn, pop corn, green stuff etc. my experiment this year is Cape Gooseberries (Physalis Peruviana for the latinophiles amongst us)

If I buy anything with seeds in it I try to keep the seeds and 2 years ago I had some cape gooseberries. I put the seeds in an envelope and forgot amout them. Clearing out a drawer this year, there they were.

So I planted them and now have 5 small plants. I had a look on the net and they should grow fine here. I read just to treat them like a tomato, same fertiliser etc.

I'll let you all know if I have any fruit this year.

[wulf]

It will be great if they do! I'm happy because we've just harvested the first couple of carrots out of our raised bed (plenty more to come but we decided to test them out as a teatime snack). Trés tasty! (read that one as a happy bunny)

Wulf

[Millymollymandy]

Amongst other things I'm growing white beetroot which is yummy. I haven't tried the greens yet but that's next on my list. Currently searching the net for interesting recipes for courgettes and beetroot, especially if they use the herbs that I have loads of at the moment (coriander, dill and basil)!

Most of my time seems to be taken up thinking "what shall we have for dinner tonight?"!!

[wulf]

I'd definitely like to try white beetroot sometime, although I think the vivid dye of the more common varieties is part of their charm. However, turnips might be my next experiment as I can start them sometime in the next few weeks for harvesting as we come into winter (taking advantage of some of the gaps opening up where I'm gradually working through crops like the pak choi).

Wulf