2017 GROWING THREAD

Potted on @Fat Controller's Rhubarb, made a very lime rich compost mix, they like that



Put more tomatoes and alpine strawberrys in the Decimator, take advantage of this sunny weather



Temperature in there currently 44C

 

Got some more spring onions reduced to 5p a bag, lobbed em in to blub up



The ones behind are same price from a few weeks back

 

Quite pleased with the new sweet pepper variety I tried this year. This is Kubista, grown in the greenhouse.

I harvested the first one today, and it looks as if there are plenty more to come. They have a good, sweet flavour and the inside of the fruit doesn't contain as much pith or seeds as other varieties, so they're easier to prepare.

As you can see, they are quite prolific too. Best sweet pepper variety I've come across for a few years.

 

Got first prize with that one.

@Zigs I saw there was a 'longest runner bean' class at Melplash Show, do you want some seeds? (you would have got another first with one like mine).

 

Ta Scrunge

Got the Bridgwater seed crop picked, still some green enough to lob straight in a curry

 

Ta da..





Seriously impressed with these (brunswick) considering the clubroot. They were potted on twice before going out into a heavily limed hole. Pulled one up for the chickens.. God it is terrifying.


Melon fell off.. currently in the front room window to ripen



Finally my celery is putting on weight.. yes!

 

Lovely Babbage Linz

 

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Some fantastic fruit and veg you have there Linz.

Growing cabbages without them being half-eaten by pests by now is a feat that we have yet to master at the community garden. So it is quite impressive to see yours doing so well.

 

Thank you Although I have had one or 3 that have been severely munched and had eggs on. These and the greyhound/primo acre II are the first cabbages I have ever grown, pretty excited to see what I can do with clubroot resistant types next year. I used scaffolding/debris netting over them as soon as I put them in the ground, been pulling the netting right back, shaking it and checking for pests every few days and to be honest, I've hardly fed them except for a sprinkling of chick poo pellets.

 

Well, harvested my first ever 'papaya' fruits today. I'd post a picture but I ate them (Only 2 ripe so far!)
The tree is Asimina triloba, a self-fertile variety whose name escapes me, but there aren't that many on the market. The only way to tell when the fruit is ripe is to squeeze them gently. Far more in common with custard apples than the common orange papaya (Carica?) they are really delicious! The tree is hardy and pest and disease-free. The local deer decimated it a couple of times but it bounced back and has put on a lot of growth in it's 4th year. Definitely ought to be more widely grown!

 

The newly weeded and mulched fruit garden



Complete with fruit

 

@Zigs , so shop bought spring onions can start growing again when planted ?

 

Yep, not blubbing up yet Harold, but still got a month or so. If they don't then they'll divide up into more spring onions in the spring, can't go far wrong for 5p a bundle

 

While Zigs has been putting spring onions in, I've been pulling them out.


Well, ok, they're fake spring onions but we treated them just the same.



Grown from seed indoors then transplanted outdoors in April. Once the bulbs had reached a decent size, we ate the green tops.

It's like a double harvest so I am quite pleased.

 

More blanching/cooking today




Melon split..boo! And the other plant had mildew so that been pulled.




Other one still ripening in the window...and more tomatoes..