Growing your own food

Qualitymark

Do you grow your own vegetables?

(I'm always impressed, when cycling through, say, Brittany, to see how farmers will use every inch of their land, growing a nice vegetable patch beside the farmhouse as well as growing corn, wheat, oats, barley, etc and grazing cattle and sheep. Once saw a house sideways-on to the road and they'd actually planted a neat row of spuds along the foot-wide patch there!)

kerryjack

spuds and cabbage, thats the lot for me easy enough to grow them,

Qualitymark

How about bees? Anyone keep bees?

And do you have an orchard, for your own apples, plums, pears, damsons, and if you have a warm wall, peaches and apricots?

Soft fruit? Raspberries, gooseberries, red- and blackcurrants, tayberries? Rhubarb?

bob charles

couple of ridges of onions/carrots/parsnip/lettuce/beetroot etc, usually get engulfed with weeds during or busy periods

kerryjack

Qualitymark wrote: »

How about bees? Anyone keep bees?

And do you have an orchard, for your own apples, plums, pears, damsons, and if you have a warm wall, peaches and apricots?

Soft fruit? Raspberries, gooseberries, red- and blackcurrants, tayberries? Rhubarb?

We had all that back in 70s , it was in the way of new milking parlor at the time had to go , nothing stood in the way of progress back than

Arrow in the Knee

Cabbage for the rams.

Suffer with root fly and white butterfly!

kevthegaff

auld lad does spuds, cabbage, carrots, onions, beatroot, lettuce, tomatoes and strawberries(glasshouse). Needless to say i come home for the dinner regularly:P:pac:

Username John

kerryjack wrote: »

We had all that back in 70s , it was in the way of new milking parlor at the time had to go , nothing stood in the way of progress back than

Now that I think of it - same story with us Jack.
Raspberry and black currant bushes went to make way for the new house. Two big old apple trees went to make room for more sheds... Progress ha

number66

Love to have a little patch to grow in, but have to stop moving first.
On a side note, Tescos have Irish grown tomatoes(only in the summer unfortunately), They taste great compared to the imported ones.

Birdnuts

Cabbage, spuds and carrots on my place in Mayo. They have a great taste which I put down to the seaweed I bring up from the shore and dig into the beds:)

redzerologhlen

Cabbage, spuds, carrots, parsnips, onions, leeks, peas, brocolli, cauliflower and lettuce. Have tried turnips but they were stringy, the auld lad says the ground was lacking in boron I think where we sowed them. The veg in the shop is like s*it in comparison.

theparish

Slugs damn slugs,absolutley everywhere.Rain and slugs where I live are a recipe for disaster.I have tried everything except the blue pellets,anything leafy is devoured in days.:mad::mad::mad::mad:

gazahayes

theparish wrote: »

Slugs damn slugs,absolutley everywhere.Rain and slugs where I live are a recipe for disaster.I have tried everything except the blue pellets,anything leafy is devoured in days.:mad::mad::mad::mad:

Broken up egg shells are supposed to be the organic way to keep slugs away.