TutuTallulah Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 This year has been our first at 'grow you own' We've had geat success with: Cucumbers Tomatoes (well, 6 out of 8 varieties!) Spring onion Radish Chantennay carrots Beetroot Lettuce Radish Sweetcorn Climbing beans (green and purple) Jalapeno chillis Very poor results for: Broad beans Peas Squash Pumpkins Peppers Parsnip (failed to grow even 1!) Today I have picked: Climbing beans Bramley Apples Tomatoes - lots and lots! Cucumber Chantennay carrots 1 very weird looking green pepper! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 Wow, that's an impressive list! I dug up 30lb of potatoes yesterday and am picking a handful of undersized but ripe grapes every day at present for the chickens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Blueberries and the last of the onions. Blackcurrant, mini orchard and onion bed has now been opened up to the chickens and they are having a whale of a time now that the rain has eased off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 3, 2010 Author Share Posted October 3, 2010 A big pot full of tomatoes - still have lots of green ones too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 I have just picked a large pan full of tomatoes, which will get made into more pasta sauce, I have run out of freezer boxes now though so we will have to have this one for tea. I have also picked our last cucumber. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 This week I finally gathered in the pumpkins. There are 7, 2 quite large, the other 5 are smallish. They're now sitting in the sun lounge to harden their skins up until next week when I'll put them in the shed. I also picked a lot of tomatoes and they've mostly been eaten in the form of a Jamie Oliver tomato and sausage dish. Yummy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 OK - so I didn't plant it, but today I picked a cep (a yummy mushroom) in my garden and 3 in my neighbours. I also found a late blooming rogue courgette and several watery raspberries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcatz Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 I also picked a lot of tomatoes and they've mostly been eaten in the form of a Jamie Oliver tomato and sausage dish. Yummy! Ummm tomatoes. I am very jealous as I have just lost ALL my tomatoes to tomato blight. They were doing well until the torrential rain a few days ago. I just threw away a bin liner full and the plants were all dead by yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 Our courgettes have had a second wind - we went to harvest the pumpkins and found loads of yellow courgettes (and some pale green 'marrows') We're still picking pounds of tomatoes, a few cucumbers, chillies, a melon and some 'yard long' beans - they are only about two feet long as I was late sowing them. The physalis has grown well but they're not ripe yet - I don't think they'll do much more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Our butternuts went all mushy in the wet weather and never grew beyond the size of a fist. I'm going to try a different sort next year. I'm not giving up! The Jerusalem artichokes have only just started flowering - which is much later than last year. Everything seems to have gone on a go slow or no go at all in this garden. Even the runner beans still refused to run. My Lazy Housewife produced much better and we had enough to freeze, but no where near the quantities we have had in the past. The earliest leeks planted seem to be doing OK so it hasn't been all doom and gloom. But I'm hoping next year it will be much better. Although the bottom of the garden is covered with huge acorns, so at least the oak has had a bumper crop. I suppose we could grind them for a coffee alternative. Second thoughts . . . You can hear them dropping in the night on the cube (probably why the girls are too tired to come out in the morning) and the shed and fence - sounds like a Gatling gun sometimes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Peppers! After a couple of years of unsuccessful attempts (first year, outside, they got swamped by their neighbours, second year in greenhouse they got swamped by tomatoes and the ones in pots only grew very tiny) so this year I put two huge pots in the greenhouse, away from the toms, and have just harvested my first peppers! Poseidon - I can't remember if they were supposed to be red or green, but I've picked them green. They are beautifully firm and shiny and squeak when rub against each other. Completely different from shop bought ones! Just waiting for some chillis to ripen as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 It must be the year for peppers- I've grown them properly for the first time this year as well I've just picked my first - and only - two quinces I bought a few from the Farmers' Market last week so that I'd have enough to make jelly. I love the smell of quince. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Not here they didn't. Refused to grow and those that did stayed diddy. Got a bit cross with it all this year. I think I'm going to have to change the compost. I've been getting the organic one - but since it changed hands it's been rubbish with toadstools growing in it. Also the wood chippings haven't rotted down - they look fresh. So I might have to change to non-organic - much as that bugs me - next year, but I would like to grow some veg! But well done for a good harvest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 10, 2010 Author Share Posted October 10, 2010 I picked 3 large red peppers,one from each plant, too yesterday. First time I have had success also.......grew them in a miracle grow bag,in the greenhouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 I have done better with peppers this year too, but they are a lot of work. I picked a hidden butternut squash when clearing the patch yesterday. carrots a small cabbage the last of the brocolli turnips swede Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 tomatoes rocket patty pan squash courgettes apples, Im seriously considering getting a fence around my veggie plot so that I can corral the chickens in there to clean up at the end of the season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 I have a fence round mine to keep the little darlings out Because we've failed to sow any winter crops I'm going to let them in to help turn the soil over and then put black sheeting down until we decide to do some more sowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 We have Omlet netting to keep cats and dogs out but at the end of the season we take a few of the hens on a little holiday and pop one of the Eglus in the veg. plot. Today I've picked a lovely sweet melon - and have two more to pick! Shame I didn't sow the seeds earlier so I could eat them in warmer weather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Today we've picked apples, pears, raspberries, blackberries, beetroot, carrots, potatoes and tomatoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 @ Lesley Three pears, which is the whole crop off my little pear tree Weighed in at 464 grams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 You won't be at today's offerings.........4 medlars........ I bought some medlars from the market as I knew I only had the 4, so I'm making medlar jelly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 Well, I have no medlars so can still be I picked 2lbs of red grapes and 4lbs of windfall crab apples in the local park Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 Don't be - the medlar jelly is not really worth making Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Yesterday we picked tomatoes, apples and pears......in the polytunnel I picked my first harvest of physallis and two small melons - we're having fruit with our porridge for breakfast! Most of the potatoes are lifted now, just a few to lift today. Chillies and peppers are still OK in the polytunnel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Wow - you have southern hemisphere/southern Europe mixed right in with an English autumn. I think that really shows the value of a polytunnel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
