What are you growing this season?

[Wowbagger]

My broad beans are now showing but it will be a while before anything comes of them.

The carrots are showing too and the runner beans, still in polystyrene cups, are beginning to sprout.

[mike]

the chard is up!

I never bother putting runner beans in the greenhouse, I just bung'em in the ground.  Has worked both years I've tried it... [will now fail spectacularly]

[Regulator]

The tomatoes went in yesterday.  Alicante (small plum type) and Sun Baby (yellow cherry type).

[Fi]

Spinach, lettuce and rocket all up; runner & french beans ready to go in the ground; nematodes ordered and I hope they work. I ended up putting two lots of runners in last year and the slugs ate the lot.

[FatBloke]

This year I am mainly growing couch grass, dandelions, brambles and that long creeping sticky green weed stuff.

I bloody hate gardening!

[Fi]

Very early one morning, I looked out of the window to see a green finch carefully pecking round a dandelion seed head until he'd eaten the whole thing.  I used to dead head them, but always leave a few for spreading all over the garden the birdies now (should save on the cost of bird food too).  You can claim to be a friend of nature Fatters!

[Wowbagger]

This year I am mainly growing couch grass, dandelions, brambles and that long creeping sticky green weed stuff.

I bloody hate gardening!

I sometimes think I've grown a couch potato.

[Riggers]

garlic in a couple of flower pots. And they're looking good already.

[border-rider]

I just  had the surveyor round from the buyers' mortgage company.  He looked in the garage, and we had a conversation about bikes: yes, there are a lot; yes, they are all mine; yes, I ride them all; yes, I do need that many; yes, that is a tricycle; etc.  Then we went outside.  "I can see you've been cycling rather than gardening" he said. Cheeky sod - it's looking not bad at the moment

[Si]

Popped over to the plot last night to do some watering and I was amazed....it was only around 24hrs since last visit but it looked like someone had crept in and planted half ground potatoes all over the plot.....I already had some pushing up but the whole lot have spurng up over night....that uranium compost is good stuff!

[bobb]

This last produces lots of nuts, but it's impossible to keep the bloody squirrels off them.

My folks have a very fine Walnut tree in their garden. You're right though - bloody squirrels have the lot! They're not cutesy, cuddly things. They're rats with tails!

We used to have baskets of walnuts every year, but now my folks get none.

In other news, my dad has been going crazy at his allotment. I like to give him a hand, but I can't confess to actually knowing anything about what he's growing! I just dig holes and stuff and then shovel it into my face when it's ready 

[Wowbagger]

They're rats with tails!

So are rats.

[Wowbagger]

I've sowed two rows of peas, broccoli and Brussels sprouts this morning.

There are two parsnips showing, lots of broad bean plants and quite a few of the early carrots.

The tomatoes I sowed last week have germinated, and the runner beans are burgeoning.

It's going to rain heavily all day tomorrow, I think, so hopefully everything will start growing properly.

[juliet]

Also, rats are cute & cuddly, bless them.

(We used to have pet rats.  Rats have a very bad press.  I accept that they're pests when they're in the wrong place, but they're still cute!)

[rogerzilla]

Judging from the smell, someone round the corner from us is growing dope

Either that, or they were really burning joss-sticks at 9am on a Saturday.

[Sergeant Pluck]

They're rats with tails!

So are rats.

 

[Domestique]

Courgettes, tomatoes and cucumber. 

[blackpuddinonnabike]

Okay, Mel has provided me with a full list of what we she is growing this year.

In the greenhouse:

4 varieties of tomato - Cristal, Pomodoro, Black Cherry and Tigerella
1 variety of sweet pepper - Tequila
4 varieties of chillies - Dorset Naga, Orange Habanero, Hungarian Hot Wax and Caldero
Basil
Rhubarb seedlings

In the veg patches:

Beetroot
Carrots
Broad Beans
Pak Choi
Mixed Lettuce
Broccoli
Peas
Dwarf Beans
Courgette

Also (in various pots and bags):

Tatties
Strawberries
Gooseberry
Blueberry

And finally:

Herbs - Dill, coriander, parsley, tarragon, oregano, thyme, rosemary and mint.

My input has been building a big raised bed, and a mini one for the wee herb garden and.... Erm.... cutting the grass....

[Jon P]

In the last week I've been starting my first veg ever.  It's taken me years to get the garden gradually under control but I now have 4 reasonable beds, 2 patios and a shed area with a path down the middle.  The 2 larger beds have been covered over for a year or so but the last 2 weekends I've dug up the smaller 2 and planted about 100 onion sets (late I know), 2 lines of broad beans, a line of beetroot and lettuce, and some radishes and spring onions in a tray, and courgettes in a tray which I think is wrong.  I'm not expecting anything much the first go and am now wondering how I will distinguish the genuine shoots from the ground elder which will be back up like a shot.

[nutkin]

Older.



(Sorry, IGMC)


And actually, nothing, because I forgot to plant anything this year. 

[Jon P]

Plan B is now to plant seeds in the little biodegradable pots, have covered the 2nd small bed over with fabric and hedge clippings, will plant them out in this when big enough and keep them mulched up.

[Swarm_Catcher]

In the greenhouse:

4 varieties of tomato - Cristal, Pomodoro, Black Cherry and Tigerella

Black Cherry are the best!