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[clucker1]

is it me or is everything taking ages to grow this year? I am a bit more organised this year so am about a week ahead of myself from last year in planting seeds etc. BUT still it seems everything is taking ages to get going! My lettuces are just specks, hanging baskets are full of green and no flowers, well 2 actually and they are surfininas....as for my sweet peas....think I might have to buy some from the garden centre My runner and broad beans seem to be doing ok, and my min squashes have turned a corner today.

[sjp]

I'm finding it's swings and roundabouts tomatoes are my main disaster with most taking 2 months to germinate from a 2nd sowing sweet peas are about right now sweetcorn is were it should be or a little a head I've got peas and beans that need to be planted out onions and leeks are well behind and brassicas have caught up, and my asters and pot marigolds are a little behind but have caught up spuds are well behind by now I should be counting the days to the first harvest but most are only just above ground

[chickencam]

The only thing that we have had problems with is French beans, we have caught up with most things, potatoes will be a couple of weeks later than last year I think.

[freddie]

Everything is about three weeks behind, all the farmers are as well, so it's not just us!! Last weeks warm weather warmed the soil though, and my veg have really got going , at last!!

[Space Chick]

A few weeks ago I would have agreed, but now things seem to have come on in leaps and bound with the warm weather coupled with the heavy rain.

 

I think we will be harvesting our first broad beans this weekend.

 

The French beans are finally starting to get growing, the peas have shot up, the beans are rapidly moving up the poles, we have flowers on our tomatoes, our peppers have bigger foliage, the leeks are expanding, the lettuce are coming, our herbs are awesome and the jerusalem artichokes are about 4 foot high... or and the brassicas and squash and looking more impressive.

 

So, things are looking good at the moment

 

Also, as we've been behind, we are still getting purple sprouting broccoli although think we will only have a little more of that now.

[sjp]

I planted out my sweet corn last weekend and realised that although I'm a week or so late planting it out it's about 3 weeks a head of last years corn and about 3 times taller than everyone else's on the site

[Lesley]

I planted my sweetcorn out last weekend as well and it's looking good if a little battered by the strong winds!

My sweetcorn drowned last year and didn't really amount to much - fingers crossed this year.

 

My first early potatoes are flowering and we have green tomatoes - still picking asparagus but the last few spears that we will pick now. Everything is catching up now.

[Old Speckled Hen]

My first early potatoes are flowering and we have green tomatoes -

 

Blimey....is that in a polytunnel?

 

 

 

Of the 20 asparagus crowns I planted 16 have nice ferns growing now

Everything else had just gone mad since we had a little rain

[sjp]

My first early potatoes are flowering and we have green tomatoes -

 

Blimey....is that in a polytunnel?

 

 

 

Of the 20 asparagus crowns I planted 16 have nice ferns growing now

Everything else had just gone mad since we had a little rain

I noticed this morning that a couple of my main crop spuds(out side) that went the week before the rest have flower buds on so I think they'll flower by mid week but they haven't got much top on them

[Lesley]

The potatoes are outside, I usually plant some in the polytunnel but they take up quite a bit of space so I didn't bother this year. The tomatoes are in the polytunnel.

[Cinnamon]

Things are not too bad here - the Toms in the greenhouse have flowers on & the Spuds are doing very well indeed.

Germination has been slower on a lot of my seed veggies though

[Old Speckled Hen]

My gooseberries are doing really well.

Watered them with Nemasys worms yesterday and the middle was cleared out last year so fingers crossed.

I LOVE gooseberry and strawberry jam...

[Lesley]

I dug up (rootled out!) our first new potatoes on Sunday and lots of others are flowering now - they seem to have gone into overdrive! We had them with the last of the asparagus although we might take another cutting yet.

 

We would have had more strawberries if we'd netted them earlier - tally so far is Humans 2 - Blackbirds 6

 

Seems like everything is catching up now - hope it's the same for everyone else?

[chickencam]

We have found that things have shot up in the past couple of weeks. We have broad beans nearly ready, a couple of 4 inch long courgettes, the potatoes are starting to flower, we have been harvesting loads of lettuce and some fabulous radishes. Cabbages are starting to heart up and peas are in flower. We have tomatoes on the hanging basket Tumbler plants, the plants aren't looking great though because of coming in and out of the greenhouse early on and getting battered by the wind. There are loads of set strawberries, they just need to fatten up and ripen. We have ended up way ahead of ourselves this year in the end, because we have had quite a few lovely evenings for allotment work which really didn't happen last year. I have planted way more seeds on the allotment this year, we have successional turnips, beetroot, spinach, chard and radishes, and millions of lettuces, my excuse being that if we don't eat them the chickens will, although one of mine already has the runs today from way too much greenery this morning.

[Daphne]

You're doing really well We've had plenty of sun but the biggest problem is the quality of the soil. Its two parts soil to one part stone! Excellent drainage, but not much goodness in it at all. I've had tomato plants stuck at 6" high for over a month, although they are starting to sprout up now as I am feeding them. Each plant has had one fruit on it as well, which are a decent size, but rather lonely Luckily I can now see more blossom. I also have the world's supply of lettuce, but this morning I discovered one was decimated by ants, and I am beginning to realise if I don't cut and eat them soon they will toughen and go bitter

 

My courgettes have teeny tiny veg on them (I'm doing a compare and contrast between my UK seed which is Defender and the 35 Portuguese seeds a neighbour gave me - but don't worry I've only grown 5 of them!), and I am growing melons, some of which have 6 flowers on them, so fingers crossed. We aren't growing potatoes, but I see fields of them around and about in full flower, and sweetcorn about 6-8 inches high although people grow it for animals, not humans.