What veg are you growing in your veggie patch?

[Marne]

Just being nosey

This is my first year growing veg and i'm finding it very exciting, so far we have planted Peas, lettuce, spring onions and carrots in the veggie patch and strawberries, blueberries and raspberries in pots, i can't wait for the first crop . what are you growing?

Carrots, garlic, red onions, potatoes, radish, strawberries, and herbs a plenty in the borders ..and salad leaves on the windowsills

I may get a blueberry plant for a pot, and I'd love to have a go at raspberries! ...yum!

oh i forgot herbs, i have a tub of herbs and garlic .

I'm in year two - it's still very exciting. Courgettes, squash, leeks, parsnips, brokali, cauliflower, radishes, beetroot, peas, green beans, runner beans, rocket, perpetual spinach, celeriac, garlic, tomatoes, cucumbers, jerusalem artichokes, spring onions, carrots & strawberries. Plus sweet peas, lavender, marigolds to attract the good beasties in and for girly prettiness. Plus lots of tubs of herbs.

We will spend the summer eating!

I have no plot yet (have free ranging chickens and need to fence them in before I can plant out), but have raspberries (not growing though), strawberries and herbs in pots as well as spuds. I have put some seeds in the little greenhouse - sprouts, tomatoes, beans. I need to get a blueberry bush too

So far.... sweet pea's, courgette, peppers, carrots onions, spinach... and I think I planted a few too many lettuces....

^Hehe, I did that the year before last, next doors rabbit had quite a feast! That was also the year that I planted tomatoes next to potatoes

How are you finding hen keeping Grockle? I'd love to have a few hens but I'm not brave enough to take the plunge!

Looks like blueberries are the order of the day!

My blueberry and raspberry canes dont seem to be doing much

We also have a few too many lettuces.

Dd2 saw me planting things and then went out in the garden planting sun flower seeds everywhere so they may be popping up in my vet patch .

Also trying butternut squash.

At home:
In planter by back door: Chives, Chervil, Dill, Coriander, Thyme, Sage, Sorrell, Salad Leaves, Carrots and some strawbs in a big strawb pot.
On veg patch: Carrots, rhubarb, potatoes, onions, broad beans, sugar snap peas, blackcurrants, raspberries, gooseberries, lettuce.
In growbags: Cucumbers and tomatoes
Indoors: Chillies

On the allotment:
Potatoes, onions, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, spring onions, flowers for cutting incl gladioil, sunflowers, cornflowers, nigella. Only Year One of the allotment so taking it slow. I am pondering an arch with some sweet peas, I grow them at home but not near the veg patch.

Love your sunflower saga Marne!

Gosh what a wonderful selection TaffetaCat, I'd love an allotment but the waiting list is horrendous!!! I think a sweet pea arch would be absolutely lovely, I've got mine on my windowsills ready and waiting to go outside. ...seedlings not arches x

Nothing yet! Live Oop North and have no windowsills (odd house) for putting things on and only a tiny patch of garden so no space for a greenhouse and it is mega windy so those shelves with a plastic cover are useless. I'm waiting just a little bit longer so I can plant things straight outside. There will be a pretty basic assortment of tomatoes, herbs, salads, potatoes and courgettes plus the dcs are going to have a few pumpkins and squashes so they can enter the heaviest vegetable or ugliest vegetable at the village show depending on their results :)

I'm in year two as well - and I think that it's exciting too!

So far I've got;
In the ground are; shallots, red onions, white onions, (4!) different types of garlic, parsnips, strawberries, raspberries, asparagus, blackcurrants, blueberries (in a pot)welsh onions, potatoes, beetroot, mixed salad leaves and spring onions (from last year!)

Sown in sunroom/lean-to are; courgettes, leeks, summer sprouting broccoli, cauliflower, peas, mange tout, tomatoes, cabbages and delphiniums,

and (finally!) still to sow are - cucumbers, sprouting broccoli, dwarf french beans, runner beans, sugar snap peas and rocket. Mum will give me a pepper plant and butternut squashes too I hope! I love this time of year

4 different types of garlic Magpie! I'm impressed.

Last year's broccoli is finally beginning to sprout - very happy.

Wow magpie, you've certainly got you hands full! Love, love, love garlic, I'm now feeling the need to plant more!

Melina - yes, it's rather a lot to manage as I only started growing veg. last year when we bought a house with a garden!

This year I'm a bit more organised though - I have a crop rotation plan and 10 raised beds!!

The garlic is a bit of a cheat really - it's my Mum who grows loads of different types of everything, and she bought too much garlic, so I've got the leftovers! We will be known as the 'smelly family' though if we eat it all, I'd better start growing some parsley seeds quick!

I am very glum, of about 20 tomato seeds me and DD planted only one grew, we do have a pot full of chilli sproutlings, loads of radishes which need to be actually planted into the ground and some strawberry seeds that are doing chuff all.
I have put the flower seeds in their fibre pots outside, if they can't be arsed to germinate on a lovely flowery windowsill, they'll have to take a chance being in the open air. DD decided it would be good for them.
I've got basil in a pot and thyme, sage, mint, rosemary and parsley in the ground.
Next year I will be more interested, we are moving in July so it seems daft to be planting stuff that DH will not have the time or interest to look after in our absence.

Kreecher - when did you plant the tomato seeds? - mine have taken ages to germinate this year and I nearly gave up on them, but forgot them for a few days and now we've got a few more come up in the tray! Hope yours grow too

1973, ages ago. Probably a month or so. As it is, singleton tom has six little leaves on, so is pretty advanced.
TBH, we didn't expect great things, DD was given a gardening set from ELC, the seeds came from there. The radishes are, as I said, bonkers, the strawberries haven't grown, nor have the sunflowers, so 50% isn't bad.

DS has been helping me in greenhouse today. Have got Yacon, sweet peas, Beetroot, fennel, caraway, dill, leeks, Golden Sweet Mange Tout, tomatoes, garlic, a few dwarf beans, lettuce, cabbage, daikon, cucumber, butternut squash and a courgette seed (swore we'd do two plants, ended up with 9). Oh and a pathetic bit of lemon grass with a tiny root.

Windowsill has Aubergines and basil. DH has chillis and peppers on the go.

In garden have new apple and cherry trees, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries and a blackcurrant.

Allotment has rhubarb, gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries. Have planted oregano, sage, chives, rainbow chard, broad beans, peas, lettuce, rocket, White Beetroot , carrots, red onions and shallots.

Getting new allotment in 3 weeks. Will be doing dwarf, climbing French and Borlotti beans, pumpkins, sweet corn, new pots, Oca , courgettes, not sure what else yet.

Have issues with window sill and demon kitten so have only just done my tomatoes in greenhouse whereas I usually do them on window sills. Love this time of year.

Only have patio but have peppers sweet peas and tomatoes in my mini-greenhouse, bush tomatoes this year I'm hoping to put them in with the flowers in my raised bed. I also have two long planters with salad, beetroot, broccoli, and salad onions. Also in the greenhouse I have three pots of watercress soaking away in a deep dish.

On my window sill, runner beans courgette and aubergine seeds. I plan to grow the last in pots. I also have a planter of stawberries and one of parsley, mint, Rosemary, coriander, oregano and chives, although growing chives from seeds more faff than it's worth.

Well at least it'll keep the Vampires at bay Magpie ..I've got a parsley plant on the go at the mo

Perhaps the seeds were 'off' Kreecher, I've often found that with 'gardening sets' the seeds supplied with them fail to grow, perhaps buy some fresh packets and give it another go

Oh my Wynken, you've certainly got an amazing selection of fruit, veg and herbs on the go! How are your fruit trees doing? ...are they relatively easy to look after?

I purchased some raspberry canes today, and some fresh strawberry plants, so I'll pop those in tomorrow! Yum!

I have a little greenhouse, growing tomatoes, chilli's, peppers, strawberries, potatoes and i'm going to get me some raspberries :)

Melima it's still early days for the fruit trees. One apple is on Year 3 and pruned as a cordon so will need to prune that every year to keep small. Other apple and a cherry went in last autumn, both have blossom but I think I'm not supposed to let them fruit in their first season to let the roots establish so will remove any fruit that form. Second apple will need annual pruning to keep small as behind greenhouse. The cherry I'll let do its own thing after this year. There's another cherry sitting in a pot whilst I work out where to put it. Hopefully in a couple of years time it will be just a quick prune of the apples once a year which the plan is to keep on too if so shouldn't be too bad (famous last words)

Lisa before you buy raspberries might be worth asking around. Once they get going they spread a lot and get everywhere so I bet someone has some spare. I dug up a load from allotment recently which will start off the new allotment and the autumn ones that DH bought for £1 each in Lidl have gone mad and little ones growing outside the raised bed now.

Kreecher if you have any seeds left I reckon it's worth trying the tomatoes and sunflowers again now. Have read strawberries are a pita from seed. Maybe someone local to you has some spare runners you could have.

Fuchzia I do aubergines in pots and although don't have a huge crop, do get a few. Have found if there aren't many insects around then pollinating with a paintbrush does the job. Some of the flowers have much thicker stalks than others and they are the ones to concentrate on, the thin stemmed ones just drop off. They have pretty flowers and look lovely.

We're off to allotment later , can't wait to see if anything has germinated since last visit.

We have onions, raspberries, strawberries, broad beans cabbages a greelsleaves apples tree and a Bardsey Island apple tree all planted since we moved here end of September. I can't wait until harvest time though the fruti probably wont happen this year.

I am rubbish at all this! We live on the coast and it's a struggle to get things to grow. 2 years ago I planted potatoes, carrots and peas, the peas all died and I got enough potatoes and carrots to do 1 Sunday dinner after all my hard work, and they must have cost loads more than the supermarket!

I have now just planted some fruit bushes and will buy the veg in future!

carrots, radishes, onions, chard, rocket, mixed salad, little gem lettuces, potatoes, broad beans, 3 different varieties of climbing beans, peas, mange tout, sweet corn courgettes, squash, basil, parsley, dill, rosemary, asparagus, artichokes, beetroot, raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries, blueberries.

have orchard with apple and plum trees.