How's Your Vegetables?

The Backwards Man

So, citizens of AH, we're all adults here, so we must discuss adulty type stuff. What do you have growing in your garden.

This year, I have potatoes, peas, onions, lettuce, cabbage, strawberries and tomatoes. The apple and pear trees are coming along nicely, and this year the fruit will hopefully be out of Lucky's reach.

How does your garden grow?

Lia_lia

I don't have a garden

JackieBauer

How's you're fanny?

RoyalMarine

I trim my bushes

The Backwards Man

Lia_lia wrote: »

I don't have a garden

You can grow things like tomatoes and lettuce on a window sill.

In a box like, not on the actual concrete.

ArtSmart

Surely there's a 'I'm a Young Farmer looking for a Wife' thread for this type of thing?

Shint0

I'm an extreeeemly low maintenance gardener. I think my one and only tree is dying. Even that has let me down :mad:

The Backwards Man

ArtSmart wrote: »

Surely there's a 'I'm a Young Farmer looking for a Wife' thread for this type of thing?

If I was young, a farmer, or looking for a wife, surely I'd be posting in said forum?:P

How's your spuds Arty? Are the tops showing yet?

gerrybbadd

That's an awful thing to ask a man.

Do nettles count as veg?

The Backwards Man

gerrybbadd wrote: »

That's an awful thing to ask a man.

Do nettles count as veg?

My granny used to make nettle soup. Vile stuff

Shint0

Has anyone noticed there's loads of bleedin' dandelions around this year. My lawn is full of them but it ain't just me because the neighbours have them aswell so that absolves me.

Cathy.C

I see Jordon loves her vegetables.

Literally.

The Backwards Man

Shint0 wrote: »

Has anyone noticed there's loads of bleedin' dandelions around this year. My lawn is full of them but it ain't just me because the neighbours have them aswell so that absolves me.

Yeah they're rampant here as well. I had a conversation with a crowd of Americans at the weekend when they noticed a patch of rough ground clattered in dandelions and benweeds.

The Yanks; Oh, aren't the flowers in that meadow so colourful and awesome

Me; Yes, they are fairy flowers, the fairies planted them so they could have a long summer of dancing under clear moonlit skies.

I'm a big sook

prinzeugen

The Backwards Man wrote: »

So, citizens of AH, we're all adults here, so we must discuss adulty type stuff. What do you have growing in your garden.

This year, I have potatoes, peas, onions, lettuce, cabbage, strawberries and tomatoes. The apple and pear trees are coming along nicely, and this year the fruit will hopefully be out of Lucky's reach.

How does your garden grow?

Spuds always planted later. Plant them on St Pats and you get blight..

Carrots from seed germinated so sould break the surface soon.

Onions, leeks planted last year and are thriving.

Canis Lupus

The Backwards Man wrote: »

So, citizens of AH, we're all adults here, so we must discuss adulty type stuff. What do you have growing in your garden.

This year, I have potatoes, peas, onions, lettuce, cabbage, strawberries and tomatoes. The apple and pear trees are coming along nicely, and this year the fruit will hopefully be out of Lucky's reach.

How does your garden grow?

I have all these things and more. Lots of different fruit and veg.


It's all laid out neatly on a shelf in my nearest store. Very little maintenance involved as well. Never have to weed, plough etc.

Witchie

Shint0 wrote: »

Has anyone noticed there's loads of bleedin' dandelions around this year. My lawn is full of them but it ain't just me because the neighbours have them aswell so that absolves me.

These kind?

I just have the one set of vegetables. They are peeking up just above the ground. Nice firm mounds ready for eating.


I've none in the garden though. Gnarf Gnarf.


:pac:

gramar

Onions, carrots, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, italian green peppers, broccoli and spuds. All planted/sown on Saturday and the mild weather and rain showers of the last few days will do them very nicely.

pajor

The gf and myself were tidying up weeds from the garden and she pulled up a carrot. Which we we had not planted. There'll be good atein this year. :pac:

She also has herbs inside but they're not going too well unfortunately.

Buona Fortuna

The Backwards Man wrote: »

My granny used to make nettle soup. Vile stuff

Nettle wine is like pi$$ too

s4uv3

Broccolli, courgettes, chery tomatoes, and butternut squash. Full of notions this year I am.

I don't have a garden, so my mother in law gave me a chunk of her polytunnel to use and I kinda got excited and planted a load of nonsense.

Chips Lovell

Spuds, onions, broad beans, lettuce, courgettes, peas, cabbage, broccoli, green beans, rhubarb, various herbs and plenty of flowers to brighten the place up.

gramar

Jep Gambardella wrote: »

Spuds, onions, broad beans, lettuce, courgettes, peas, cabbage, broccoli, green beans, rhubarb, various herbs and plenty of flowers to brighten the place up.

I think I should plant a few things in plant pots and see how they do, maybe a spinach plant or two and the like. Any suggestions?

The Backwards Man

Jep Gambardella wrote: »

Spuds, onions, broad beans, lettuce, courgettes, peas, cabbage, broccoli, green beans, rhubarb, various herbs and plenty of flowers to brighten the place up.

If there was a hell, Satan would eat broad beans as sweets. I hope you grow them to torture your enemies.

Autosport

Potatoes, Onions, Scallions, Tomatoes, Lettuce, Blackcurrants, Gooseberries, Strawberries and Raspberries

Chips Lovell

The Backwards Man wrote: »

If there was a hell, Satan would eat broad beans as sweets. I hope you grow them to torture your enemies.

I love 'em. Nice with a bit of lamb.

Chips Lovell

gramar wrote: »

I think I should plant a few things in plant pots and see how they do, maybe a spinach plant or two and the like. Any suggestions?

I've never grown spinach. I've tried growing a few things in pots and boxes and the only thing that's ever worked for me is lettuce. I think they're too shallow for anything else.

Day Lewin

I got as far as raking a patch for vegetables. Nothing sown yet though: am I too late, as usual?

In other news, apple tree, pear tree and raspberry canes, all doing nicely: and a pot with trailing strawberry plants.

Oh, and sage, lovage, chives, mint and horseradish. And garlic. Oh, and the Glow Bartichoke.

Might shove in a few spuds and mange-tout peas, very easy.

Everything else gets eaten by slugs, what's the point?

gramar

Jep Gambardella wrote: »

I've never grown spinach. I've tried growing a few things in pots and boxes and the only thing that's ever worked for me is lettuce. I think they're too shallow for anything else.

I have lettuce in the vegetable patch, never fails to do well there.
I've planted 6 for now and another few in a few weeks time. I used to plant a dozen but what can you do with 12 heads of lettuce all at once!?

Chips Lovell

Made that mistake too alright. So much lettuce we couldn't eat it all. I now plant rows a few weeks apart

irelandrover

The Backwards Man wrote: »

So, citizens of AH, we're all adults here, so we must discuss adulty type stuff. What do you have growing in your garden.

This year, I have potatoes, peas, onions, lettuce, cabbage, strawberries and tomatoes. The apple and pear trees are coming along nicely, and this year the fruit will hopefully be out of Lucky's reach.

How does your garden grow?

I have lettuce, onions, peas, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, courgettes, cucumbers,raspberries, strawberries, figs, cherries.

Quite happy with my garden.

Dr Crayfish

I recently purchased a house with a big enough back garden. I was thinking of buying a greenhouse too. Only thing is I haven't a clue how to grow anything! Can anyone point me in the direction of good resources on the subject? Thanks.

Apple tree, raspberry's, blackcurrants, gooseberry's strawberry's lots of herbs in the back garden. Lots of flowers in the front garden. Last year on a summer evening a woman knocked on the door and said she just wanted to tell me how lovely the garden was and that the smell was lovely as she walked by.( night scented stock ). I though it was a lovely compliment.

mallards

I've planted spuds, tomatoes, peppers, chillies, leeks, peas, parsnips, garlic, courgettes, Swiss chard, beetroot, broad beans, kale, rhubarb, artichoke, strawberries, herbs, squash and pumpkin. I also put in a wild flower garden and a few flowers about the place to brighten it up. Considering my gardening skills, I'll be lucky to get a spud for chips at the end of all this.

topper75

prinzeugen wrote: »

Spuds always planted later. Plant them on St Pats and you get blight..

Sure you are not talking about late frosts? Can't see how blight is triggered by planting month. More to do with muggy weather later in the growing season.

Either way though - you are right to wait.

neenam

Found a few packets of unopened seeds that were expired since 10'-12' and sowed them a month ago. They're all doing great - kale, red kale, carrott, cabbage, cherry tomatoes, marigolds and sweet pea. Going to sow lettuce later on in the year every 2-3 weeks and some salad ones like mizuna, mustard, pak choi and tat soi. Going to try grow some butternut squash for the craic this week if it's not too late.
I'd want to hire some ducks for snail control with this weather lately.

squeekyduck

I live in a city so my garden is more of an outside room! However I am originally from the countryside so fresh fruit and veg were something I used to plant from time to time.

This year in the small city garden I have planted strawberries from seed, lettuce, rocket lettuce, chillies and tomatoes in a large grow bag.

I have herbs too but I need to build a herb box for space reasons and place it on the wall. So far I have Rosemary and mint as these are easy to grow. I will plant basil, dill and parsley but I will cheat and get them already grown and pop them in my herb box!

The Sidewards Man

I prefer my bank account to grow and shop for vegetables. Move with the time folks this isn't 1965. Should we stop driving and buy a horse and trap altogether?

Shint0

My God. All the self-sufficientes. I feel so inadequate. I'm vegetarian (not the in yer face kind) but if I grew everything I would never leave the house at all. Very impressed, though, with all the gardening and horticultural skills on boards. How about a boards allotment so the less green-fingered among us can pick up some skills?

Sam Kade

The Backwards Man wrote: »

So, citizens of AH, we're all adults here, so we must discuss adulty type stuff. What do you have growing in your garden.

This year, I have potatoes, peas, onions, lettuce, cabbage, strawberries and tomatoes. The apple and pear trees are coming along nicely, and this year the fruit will hopefully be out of Lucky's reach.

How does your garden grow?

I thought you only had a parsnip and two tomatoes :eek:

maudgonner

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

I prefer my bank account to grow and shop for vegetables. Move with the time folks this isn't 1965. Should we stop driving and buy a horse and trap altogether?

The horse poo would make good fertiliser for the garden, but you'd end up feeding him all your carrots. Hmm, interesting dilemma...

MonkeyTennis

I have two apple trees, one of them is good and one of them is evil, any advice?

Shint0

Does anyone have any use for all the bird manure over my car and windows at the moment? I'll trade you for some carrots or sweet potatoes if you have them.

RonanP77

In the polytunnel I have peas, corn, garlic, shallots, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, asparagus and nectarines. There are herbs planted last year that are coming on again, chives, mint, sage and a few others.

Outdoors I have rhubarb, gooseberries, raspberries, blueberries, black currant, red currant, blackberries and one or two others.

Then I have crab apples, cooking apples and 2 kinds of eating apples, cherries, damsons, 2 kinds of plumb, walnut, almonds, cobbnuts, pears and I'm sure I'm forgetting something. A lot of these won't come on yet because it's still a young orchard. There's various kinds of flowers including a whole hedge of roses (rosa rugosa) to eventually make wine out of.

Aside from that I have another 50ish trees ranging in age from seeds planted last year up (chestnut, sycamore, apple, haznut) to a 15 year old oak. Most are 4-6 years old. I've forgotten what some of them are already.

conorhal

I've a spacious balcony but no garden, which is a good thing.
To say I lack a green thumb is an understatement, I once managed to kill ivy planted on the balcony.... ivy FFS, that stuff will grow out of a wall pretty much anywhere!
The dandelions are coming along nicely though!

Duggy747

I've a pathetic sized garden that had to be dug up when I initially moved in because 300 litres of kerosene leaked into it. Plus, my poor dog had colitis at one point and just spat arse gravy all over the place making it a no man's land for a while.

It looks like it was in the Kosovo war, it's been through a lot.

RonanP77

When I was shopping around for a house I paid more attention to the garden than the house. Anything smaller than .75 of an acre and I wouldn't even look at it. I was lucky enough to get a nice house on a 1 acre site. Plenty of room for trees, shrubs, fruit and veg.