What you got growing?

[Andy Hamilton]

It's one of those difficult gardening years this year I fear, just this morning a frost and another forecast for tonight. I only have a few things in so far, so what about you?

I have peas, burdock, carrots, turnips, jerusalem chokes, onions from sets, hops, salads and rocket all in. With Corn, courgette, peppers and tomatoes all begging me to put them outside.

fruit is on its way, thankfully so should get some black and red currants, gooseberries, apples, raspberries, tayberries.

Would like to get in a huge area of corn and perhaps some beans but when will the last frost be?

[Annpan]

So far I have:

Garden Peas
Mange Tout
Pakchoi
Mizuna
Rocket
Mixed Lettuce
Radish
Carrots
Spring onion
Red Onion
White Onion
Tomatos (various varieties) (all under 5 inches tall)
Red Cabbage
White Cabbage
Chinese Cabbage

Pear tree, 3 apple trees and cherry tree are all in bloom

Raspberry, gooseberry and blackberry all growing fast.

Marigolds, Sweetpeas, Giant Sunflowers, Cornflowers

planted but not yet growing - courgette, french beans, broad beans, cucumber, melon, parsnips, geraniums, beetroot.

I also have various herbs growing... or trying to grow... I have never managed to get basil to grow past 4 leaves

Oh and my rhubarb has begun it's annual attempt to take over the world

I have had more time in the garden this year than I ever had before and I have lots of each thing growing and I am trying to stay on top of successional planting for the first time too.... I am hoping to be able to sell some of my surplus fruit and veg later in the year (ie. when we can move back home) sadly at the moment I am not able to eat anything I am growing

[Odsox]

This was covered a week or so ago, see .. http://www.selfsufficientish.com/forum/ ... 12&t=18926
That's a lot easier than me typing it all over again

[bobby280]

Gee, you guys have hardly got anything. I've got weeds, grass and some lavendar. Mind you, my basil (indoors) is thriving. The secret is, keep it indoors in the sun and water it a lot. My instructions say dont over water but in my experience it loves a drink as much as I do.

[Annpan]

Oh yes I have at least 20 types of weeds too

Thanks for the tips with the Basil

[citizentwiglet]

I have lots of things in pots hardening off and waiting to go into the raised bed in the community garden on Saturday, provided I can make a cloche big enough, and fast enough.
I have:

Lots of kale. And I mean LOTS of kale. I have pricked out 20, enough for myself and some freebies for other plot-holders, and I must still have about 40 waiting....
Rainbow Chard, and plenty of it.
Dwarf French Beans 'Top Crop' - quickly outgrowing their loo-roll inners and desperate to go in the soil, hence my need for the cloche.
Climbing French Beans 'Blue Lake' - those are for the back yard, though.
Courgettes x 4 (2 are for friends)
Spring onions in varying degrees of development
Carrots
Early spuds (Arran Pilot) in sacks
Salad leaves (normal and chinese stir-fry mix)
My herb garden is coming on nicely....

I also have small plants of calabrese, leeks and tomatoes coming to the community garden from an organic nursery who's helping get us started. More carrot seeds, swede, more leeks, garlic, shallots, PSB will get sown in due course........

I have 4 different types of pepper waiting to germinate on the windowsill.

Only fruit so far are my strawberry plants, and only 6 of them. Must try harder with fruit.

To be honest, I'm getting a bit confused by it all now!!!!

[Minnesota]

We Had frost no nights ago.
150 miles north of me, Duluth MN got 4 or 5 inches of snow.

I do have Peas in, they are about 4 inches tall.
also Spinach, radishes, Beets, cabbage, and Brussel sprouts
all those are about an inch tall.

My tart Cherry tree was loaded with blooms,
Looks like they made it through the frost.
My Gooseberry bush is also loaded with blooms.
My Hops are about 10 feet tall climbing my Hop pole.

I've harvested some Rhubard for Wine last week.
Asparagus has been slow, but I've had a couple meals so far.

My Violet Tulips are blooming, and the peonies are getting close.
Oh, my Poppies are about ready to bloom, maybe in a week.
they are my favorite flower, I love that orange-orange.

[Millymollymandy]

Amazing Minnesota, there you were with mountains of snow and your garden sounds where mine is right now! And that's about 2 weeks behind 50 miles south of here.

Agree about the basil, last year's is still going strong so I haven't sown this year's basil yet and it likes and needs lots of water being grown in pots on a sunny windowsill. Otherwise the leaves droop and brown and fall off.

[JulieSherris]

Well, I have all the usual in the greenhouse/polyhouses etc.... peas & beans are starting, onions are in, seeds are all finding their way into the beds (somehow!) and all the usual crops are once again on the list.

However, I found a horseradish plant yesterday - yay! It says that it quite early can smother even the hardiest of weeds, so it's going into one of the banks & can do battle with the ground elder there - if it works, then I will buy LOADS next year!

And I'm trying celeriac this year. I've never grown it before, so I have no idea how big it gets, but fingers crossed!

[Flo]

Carrots, parsnips, potatoes, peas, broad beans, onions from sets, garlic, beetroot, oasis turnip, swede, kohl rabi, lettuce, salad leaves, radish, parsley, sage, chives, borage, radicchio, coriander, rocket in the soil.

Brussel sprouts, calabrese, green curly kale, red curly kale, cauliflowers all pricked out. Lavender and Rosemary ready to plant out after the last of the frosts. Extra sage still on the window sills along with courgettes. Dwarf beans and climbing French beans in pots in the poly tunnel along with celeriac, celery, basil, purple sprouting broccoli. There’s a few leeks to plant out.

Strawberries and raspberries in place, rhubarb in full production. Apple, pear and plum trees in flower. Need to put a row of fennel in.

All depends on the damage the frost did last night of course. But have plenty of part packets of seeds if the worst happens.

No idea where everything is going to go mind you. But that problem usually solves itself.

[bonniethomas06]

However, I found a horseradish plant yesterday - yay! It says that it quite early can smother even the hardiest of weeds, so it's going into one of the banks & can do battle with the ground elder there - if it works, then I will buy LOADS next year!

!

Bugger! Julie you have just reminded me of something - I bought a tiny sliver of a horseradish slip and stuck it in with the other roots. Totally forgot, as I didn't have any labels left. Was hoeing last night and remember battling to remove a really persistant weed which had established itself very fast in one of the root beds... Damn!! Have hoed my horseradish!

I have growing (outside):

All pots - firsts through to maincrop
leuttice (various)
spinach
carrots (chantenay and nantes/early nantes)
parsnips
beets
salsify/scorzonera (first time for this)
turnips
radish
shallots
red/white onions - from seed and sets
salad onions
leeks - some straight sown, some in cells.
dill
tarragon
flat leaf parsley
peas - some 1.5ft high, some 6inches high (successional)
mange tout
broad beans

In polytunnel, waiting to be planted out:

tomatoes (5 varieties)
runners
dwarf french beans - but only 3 so far
kale
sprouts
cauli
broc
mizuna (wrong time I know but a quick salad crop in polytunnel)
perpetual spinach in polytunnel border
s/corn
celery
cabbage - autumn
early purple sprouting


In House waiting to be planted out:

chillis
aubergene (big black variety and mini striped variety)
sweet pepper
piccolino peppers
sweet squash
courgettes
cucumbers (as usual, dying off at an amazing rate)
basil (same problem as annpan - may have to ditch and start again)
thyme
oregano
mini yellow squash
pumpkin
lovely blue squash
tiny swiss chard


left to sow:

celeriac (first lot died)
spaghetti squash
different varieties of french bean (must get on with this)
swede
more peas
more runners (to stagger)
more salad crops (in succession)
red cabbage
winter/spring cabbage
main purple sprouting

Fruit

goosegogs x 3 (only one will fruit this year - but has whitefly prob)
redcurrent x 1
blackcurrent x 2
blueberries x 6
plum x 1 in pot(won't fruit this year, hasn't even come into leaf yet as new)
cherry x 1 in pot (new only has 4 flowers)
apple tree - well established x 1
rasps x 20 canes (autumn fruiting)
rhubarb x 2 - but none this year as new
strawbs x48 - new but hopefully some! no flowers yet
lots of rosehips.


Phew! Sorry probably quite boring to read but a helpful exercise. Now I realise why I have no spare time and no social life: veg rules my life .

[kompost krazy]

Pea 'Maro'
Broad Bean 'Aquadulce Claudia'
French beans 'Cherokee Trail of Tears' (climbing), and 'Soldier' and 'Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco' (bush)
Runners 'Enorma', 'Scarlet Emperor' and 'White Swan'
Early spuds 'Rocket' and 'Orla'
Maincrop spuds 'Pink Fir Apple' and 'Picasso'
Lettuce 'Cardinale'
Cabbage 'Quintal de Alsace'
Kale 'Sutherland'
Parsnip 'Tender and True'
Swiss Chard 'Golden' and 'Sibilla'
Toms 'Costoluto Fiorentino', Purple Ukraine', 'Golden Sunrise' and 'Tigerella'
Onion (from seed) 'Ailsa Craig'
Garlic 'Marco'
Nasturtiums, various (also a food crop, as the leaves, flowers and seeds can all be eaten, and I've had some very tasty cheese-and-nasturtium sarnies already).
Fruit:
Apple 'James Grieve' (I think - it's an old, mature tree which was full-size when I moved in in 1978, and that's my own, unconfirmed identification), 'Cottenham Seedling', 'Isaac Newton's Tree / Flower of Kent', 'Brownlees Russet', and 'Egremont Russet (but no crops from the last four for another couple of years, as they are only two years old), Quince 'Ispahan' (also no crops for another two years or so), Gooseberries 'Jenny Lind', 'London' and 'Langley Gage', Raspberries 'Autumn Bliss' and 'All Gold'.