The Vegetable Patch 2024/2025

[MereDintofPandiculation]

Come and share your triumphs and failures in your vegetable plot or allotment.

Thank you!

taking the opportunity to be in the garden, while there is a break in the rain!

i’ve just planted out some Pentland Javelin early potatoes in grow bags and I’m holding off planting out my Cara main crop until later this month. Does that make sense or should I just try to get the main crop in the ground now?

Warm and dry here but it's so windy it's hard to do stuff outside.

Tomatoes that got sown last week have germinated, also some sweet corn and beans peaking through the soil.

Thanks for the new thread, @MereDintofPandiculation I thought I'd adorn it with a post albeit not a lot of action on the vegetable front atm, I'm afraid,

If rhubarb can be a substitute while I 'mark for time' ... I checked my champagne crowns today and they are looking quite healthy. I've also got another couple of Victoria outside the greenhouse in a large deep tub, so I dug out some pellet bonemeal fertiliser from the garage and gave them all a top dressing and lightly loosened the soil round the crowns, as I think it's going to rain later so I'm hoping the pellets will dissolve and get absorbed.

It has been an unanticipated bonus day for me, not as windy as they'd forecast so far, every now and again we get a mad moment with Storm Kathleen blowing a big gust and then it goes quiet again. Very strange but I'm not complaining as this is the best it's been here all week!

Thank you, lots of seeds planted this week. Tomatoes, sunflowers, pumpkins, cucumbers, cucamelons, cosmos, sweetcorn. All on the windowsill in incubators.

Oh, I just spotted this. We have just added a third veg bed to our garden today.
I shall follow for ideas.

Ooh yay, I'm trying to be really productive this year, here's current status, all from seed:
Seedlings or young plants In lean to ( warmer than green house)
Tomatoes (beef and cherry)
Cucumber
Peppers
Cabbage
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Runner beans
Butternut squash

In greenhouse
Strawberries (plants from last year)
Spinach
Watermelon (not from seed)

In ground or pots:
Peas
Celery
Onions
Leeks
Potatoes

And not from seed:
Raspberries
Blue berries
Black currant
Blackberry
Fig
Nectarine
Cherry
Rosemary
Lavender
Lemon balm
Mint

I think that's it so far!

Oh, lettuce also in ground and early seedlings have appeared.

Carrots have yet to sprout

My "veg patch" is a few window boxes on a balcony this year. I have salad leaves and peas growing, but hope to add tomatoes, courgette, french beans and peppers (sweet and chilli) to that. Seeds en route as first batch failed.

Hi! New to this board, and my first allotment plot, previously enjoyed growing veg in my garden.

So far I’ve harvested rhubarb from my plot and have some brilliant growth from broad beans, onions and garlic.

Sowed today into the ground… lettuce, spinach, carrots, spring onion, chard, borage and chives. Strawberries planted.

In pots, in the greenhouse.. tomato, peppers, cucumbers, courgette, squash, sweetcorn, dwarf french beans, kale, chilli.

Waiting to do red cabbage, parsnips, celery, pumpkins, artichokes (if I have space)

Was really worried about storm damage on the plot today but the 'fences' seem to have survived. Radish and lettuce coming up. New raspberries a bit pathetic but strawberry bed very encouraging.

I have a windowsill full of seeds: pumpkins, butternut and uchiki kuri (sp?). Sunflowers, with which I plan to delight people at the bus stop over the wall. Poppies, chocolate and chili peppers, tomatoes and sweetcorn too. French beans, borlotti beans and peas are germinating on wet kitchen roll (I hope). And I've just got some new raspberry canes in. Garlic is doing well in the ground.

I'm in the south west, where its warming up but very wet and windy - can others say roughly where they are?

My daughter and I are keen to grow veg for the first time this year. We have a raised bed 2m x 1m but no greenhouse. What can we start off with that's easy please!

I have some strawberries from last year, two pots of rhubarb and some mint. Also a couple of spuds that need repotted into something much bigger. Couple citrus trees (just bought) and some blackcurrants.
Having trouble with bastard ants 🐜 in my pots on the ground in the greenhouse. Is ant killer beat way to go with them or what else might you lovely peeps suggest?
Good thread by the way!!

Sugar snap peas (but grow in pots on a windowsill till they’re at least 10cm as a defence against slugs), Swiss chard, strawberries.

Thank you for the new thread.

I have another 2 weeks before I can get on my allotment (recovering from hysterectomy) but my peas are taking over my green house so I might have to attempt to get them in later this week.

I’m trying to add more flowers to my plot but ideally native species, I love fox gloves but know they are poisonous, do you think it’s ok to have them on the allotment? I also bought some native cowslips in hope they will spread. I tried planting British lavender last year but it died, I’m not sure why I have such poor luck with lavender. I will be sewing some maragold seeds this week to plant between crops.

I’m in the south west too, the weathers looking a bit better this week, might even get a couple dry days at the end of the week.

Laandan @upshot

@upshot We're in Nottinghamshire - but in this little zone 13 frost pocket

@upshot your bus queue sunflowers are the nicest thing I've heard since I don't know when.

I'm on the Hampshire/Dorset border. Hoping for no more frosts as I already have a few potatoes showing above ground.

Apart from tomatoes, potatoes and beans, I'm giving up planting veg seeds - everything just gets slugged. So far I've tried carrots - these did germinate and I thinned them out and they all disappeared (raised bed with netting over). Lettuce - no idea, I presume they got slugged. Same with radish and parsnip.

I never have much luck with carrots or lettuce so I don’t bother with them anymore. Only seed I’ve planted this year are peas, mangetout, cucumber and courgette. I have some squash and pumpkins to sew in a week or two. I will buy beetroot plugs as I did this least year and they grew really well, same with sprouts and broccoli.

@Unusualactualname peas and pumpkins (I helped pollination along to ensure some grew!) have been easy and successful for us.

I'm in the south east

Its not currently raining here on the NE (England) coast so I have been out doing a bit of a tidy in the flower beds and getting the weeds out of the veg beds as we have compost and soil coming on Wednesday.

It's too early to have any seedlings in the ground yet here, but my rhubarb is almost ready to cut, there are a few asparagus tips appearing, and the raspberries and blueberries are in bud, so spring must be on its way

I have peas, courgettes, sweetcorn, sunflowers, and sweetpea in pots to go in my little growhouse.

I need new strawberry plants.

I have given up on tomatoes as they really need a greenhouse up here, and potatoes take up too much space in my small garden beds.

I'm glad I found this thread as I am very amateur at this growing lark, but I love it.

We've harvested our first asparagus spears from our asparagus and strawberry bed. The novelty of fruit and veg growing just never wears off. Picking these first spears was a real joy!

Am currently battling with planning what is going where this year, I have three veg beds and vertical growing space but I really struggle to get my head around succession planning etc despite having grown veg for years.

Anyone have any plans/regular succession planting rules they follow?