Vegetable Growing 2025

Morrisons red pointed peppers, not red yet but they are looking promising.
Growing outside in pots.

 

Anyone know why these cucumbers have gone mottley green?

 

Possibly a virus, but not sure.

 

This may help ?
https://projectblue.blob.core.windo...ucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV).pdf

 

Hmm yes I was thinking some kind of mosaic virus.

 

My cucumber plants (all outside) are being attacked by spider mites. I've never had this before. I've stupidly put off dealing with it so now it has spread. I remembered I've got a bottle of sb plant invigorator and bug killer so I'm going to try spraying that on them this evening. A lot of my courgette plants are mildewy already so they're suffering too. On the plus side I'm picking lots of cherry tomatoes and some of the big tomatoes are ripening nicely. Just feeling a little defeated/disheartened by the cucurbits.

 

Spray the mildew with diluted milk and up the watering.

Unfortunately I've never found anything short of bad stuff that kills spider mites unless you know a farmer.

I have some Crocosmia, Not veg obviously, that is almost dead already due to spider mites.

 

Picked the white onions, these will be used fairly quickly. The keeping yellow onions and zebrunne shallots are still in, but will hopefully dry off a bit in the supposed good weather we have this week. Sown some mustards, salad rocket, pak choi and spinach in place of the onions and between some beetroot that had a lot of spare space.

Courguettes are now starting to pick up production, some Victoria plums are edible from a damaged tree, first san marzanos being produced, more tomatillos coming in. Also runner beans have now started producing

 

Picked my first Tromboncino today. 41cm long. There's a bigger one still on the vine that I'm leaving to see just how big it will get, but this one was growing low down and about to touch the ground.

 

can you play any tunes on it?

 

I picked our first Ogen melon this morning, the rest are coming along nicely

 

Sounds good @floralies . Used to grow them in France myself. My favourite type of melon so very envious

 

Some beans, making some stewed greek beans for the freezer

 

We harvested the last of the rubbish pea crop. Not all the same ones and done at different stages.
So these last ones were sown outdoors directly (100 seeds) and just over 40 germinated. Having picked the pods and emptied them we now have 295 peas. OK we have made a return but what about the cost...compost, watering, weeding and on it goes.
So no peas for us next year. We just don't get the return.
Are we being too critical?

 

I rarely grow maincrop peas for similar reasons. My early ones were very good this year. In a patch just opposite the shed door so easy to keep an eye on and keep well watered .
Over the years I've modified what I grow or even try to grow. I don't grow carrots, hard to germinate, cheap in the shops -we don't eat many anyway. Can't grow any of the onion family- white rot in the soil. I concentrate on things that do ok, particularly that are best fresh as possible or are expensive in the shops like Asparagus, and Raspberries for example.