Vegetable Growing 2025

I made a compote from mine, only picked 250g though.

 

Flowers on the Issai kiwi?! Its its 2nd year in the ground. The male and the kens red got nada but are healthy, I heard issai flowers silly early. This is new growth off of last years growth, I guess thats the flowering pattern... if it is a flower

 

Just sown:
pumpkins:

3x Cornels Bush Delicata
2x "Sweet Lightning" seedling I THINK (was from a market)
2x Incan Gold

Cucumbers:
2x Delistar
2x Itachi (a strange white cucumber)
2x French Gherkin

the first two cuces are female only so im hoping the gherkin has males to pollinate for seeds, that way I can grow the itachis kids next year as theyre very expensive f1s.

I guess I should do succession sowing and sow some more cuces in a month.

I have so many pumpkin seeds now idk what to sow. Theyre so big I dont have space! Might toss some seeds by the bus stop or something

 

@JWK I was going to say that the only crop I have is Rhubarb, then I saw this.

A bit early, but hey ho first of the season, delicious.

 

Garlic growing a bit more now, inside and out. Removed the salads from the greenhouse and watered heavily in anticipation of putting down a couple of inches of homemade compost and planting the tomatoes in a couple of weeks

 

Went to the Allotments. Managed to get 2nd early Charlotte, and maincrop, Sarpo Mira in. Exhausted now, by the time I take out a furrow, use the spud planter to put them in, then dig out compost from the "finished " bin,. A layer of compost , handful of fertilizer pellets, 2 cans of water per row, then finally ridge them up.
It's a bit of an effort but without it, the crop is poor. Hope the sluds leave them alone this time.

 

Been busy at plots recently. Finished erecting the fruit cage and finally got the new raspberry canes in. I haven't done all the supports and wires etc yet they can wait till there's more growth. It's so dry again I spent the first hour today just watering, even though there's still not that much growth yet. Things like the Asparagus the strawberry bed, the broad beans and early peas. I brought the tomatoes out of the greenhouse to enjoy a day in the sun but they will go back tonight. Still loads to do, but making progress at last.

 

All my brassicas got eaten by slugs outside. Also all the slug pellets gotta eaten within a day by I assume mice. I am hopeful the onions will make it at least. Epazote roots can withstand a Scottish winter it seems, it's regrowing in my shaded greenhouse border. It's quite potent and smells of petrol, an interesting herb for mexican cooking. Planted out February sown leeks for hopefully an August harvest of summer leeks. The ones sown end of march need repotted soon.

 

Finished the Raspberry cage at last. Mended the door bottom rail, and got the roof. net on. So I now have 3 Broccoli Marathon plants camping out in there for the season. I will be moving some strawberries in in the Autumn so they can be there for now. Haven't had time to put the Brassica cage up yet anyway and main plants won't come till late May.
I find Marathon a good doer, after the main head you get lots of side shoots, so they keep producing for a long time
They will supplement the main crop in the other cage (when I eventually put it up).

 

Brussels and kalettes planted yesterday under netting for the rest of their lives as I have a very active pigeon population. Not grown flower sprouts before. Lots to do this weekend, planting out corn, squash, taking chillis to the gh in the allotment.

Scapes just becoming visible on my earliest garlic in the greenhouse, with the good weather they should be pickable end of may/start of june

 

2 years ago our son gave us a combination seed box with allsorts. I sowed some cauliflower early snowball in the tunnel last year. Growth was very slow and while we watered every now and then just forgot about them. Amazing to find we actually do have a cauli. This is the first we have ever been able to grow and we have been here since 1978!

 

@On the Levels And the leaves look fantastic - no damage!

 

@CarolineL agree no damage to the leaves at all. Fabulous.

 

Planted all outside toms, three tomatillos, 20 corn, 4 winter squash. Still got more squash to go in next week.