How are peoples veggies growing?

[snorkle]

Just being nosy really. Wondering what if anything people are harvesting at the moment and how the rest of it is growing.

My courgettes are now outside (appreciating the rain, but took a battering from the wind yesterday). They're quite big and bushy but not quite flowering yet. Squash plants are a little smaller but growing fast.

Tomatoes are flowering (not set yet), I've moved half of them outside.

Beans are about a foot high (one, that was nurtured indoors by dd is bigger and flowering).

Sweetcorn seems to have stopped growing at about 9 inches tall.

Melons look as though they might flower soon.

We're eating lettuce (I've done successional sowing, but should have planted more at a time) and radish & rhubarb, but I foolishly tried to move the spinach beet and killed it.

Carrots, Onions, Celeriac seem to be growing OK but I'm a bit worried that the carrot fly have struck.

Brocolli, parsnip, swede, chard, new spinach beet and cabbage are still very small.

Beans are a foot high and one is flowering

Strawberries are flowering and one has set fruit (yay!)

Raspberries ditto

Tomatoes are looking pathetically weedy - think they might have gone outside too soon but hopefully we'll have some sun whihc will perk them up.

Chillis are thriving on the windowsill - will keep them indoors till it gets warmer though

Sounds like we're doing similarly

Potatoes doing magnificantly. About to flower.

Carrots and Parsnips need thining but haven't done yet.

beans about 1/2 foot high

Peas about 1.5 foot

Pumpkins, courgettes and sweetcorn were planted out on Saturday and looking ok but a little way off flowering.

Tomatoes about 4 inches high, not nearly flowering yet.

Lettuce and salad leaves small

Cucumbers going in grow bags at the weekend, about 5 inches high.

Cabbage and brocolli also small

Early days here.

Have just put toms out and they just about survived the recent battering from torrential rain.

French beans are still protected under lemonade bottles to stop the mice from nibbling them - only planted them out last week but seem quite happy.

Courgettes and squash - still quite small but looking happy to be planted out!

Had first lot of rhubarb a few weeks ago and some early strawberries.

Have some cut and come again lettuce and rocket that is slowly growing!

courgettes flowering but not setting
carrots not doing much growing.
peppers not growing at all
beans not germinating (4th try)
squash not germinating (2nd try)
tomatoes possibly blighted. also not growing.

my tomatoes are doing FAB. they are outside, not flowering yet but really growing high.

peas coming along, a couple of flowers.

strawberries flowering and the wee yellow strawberries are there!

herbs doing great!

i've got tomatoes, ive got tomatoes (green and small but they are there).

Strawberries loads of but still green.

i am kind of growing veg.

I have a cheapo "greenhouse" and in that i have a pot with red pepper plant in - nothing exciting happening(its growing is all),
a pot with yellow pepper in which is doing the same as the red,
a pot with cucmber in, whch is v tall and what i call vine-ing (sending out feeler type things!)
DS2 has peas which we are transferring to a pot in the garden this w/e as they are getting crowded,
ds1 has tiny strawb plants, and there is a tomato plant that is hugely tall but nothing else !

I say kind of growing because i am hopeless at growing things so these are in their pots in the greenhouse thingy and we will see what happens!

Expat, are your tomatoes outside outside, or covered up outside iyswim? I've put mine (1st attempt) in a sort of plastic cloche, ahead of growbags later. You're west of Scotland, aren't you?

have grown them from seed and am inordinately fond of them, though only v small so far. Am hoping for great things.

fishy are your bean and squash seeds old or do you think something is eating them? They're usually quite easy to germinate (I thought mine weren't going to this year but they did in the end).

they are outside in growbags in one of those cheapo greenhouses you get from the pound shop.

they are next to a wall, facing a bit south-westerly.

oh, we have tatties, too.

in two grow bags.

they're MAJORLY sprouting that nightshade plant.

they're just uncovered against a stone wall.

we saw Jamie's gardener just stand the back up, slit it all over and show seed potatoes in it.

so we're experimenting!

Very impressed with manky's tomatoes and expat you are doing brilliantly for Scotland.

i don't know what is the matter wtih them snorkle, they are a year old but are franchi so should be ok. and the runner beans aren't germinating either. they are indoors. hadn't happened to me before. mystery.

you should see my lavender bush! it's gorgeous!

i put it on the other side of the house, where it's drier and the soil is a bit sandier.

i had it in a old plastic container that used to have laundry powder in it.

now it's got so big i've had to move it to an abandonded galvanised rubbish bucket that DH drilled holes in on the bottom.

DD1 has a sunflower plant on the sill just now that we grew from seed that's ready to be transferred to a bigger bot and fed up.

just used organic peat-free compost grow bags and organic Miracle Gro plant food.

have you dug around for the seeds? if they are still there but gone gooey like glue its probably that they are too wet and cold.

our courgettes are flowering and setting (if that means baby courgettes) - i'm a newbie veggie grower!!

tomatoes, strawberries, peppers and beans flowering. squashes seem ok but small.

the chickens got the chilli plants

so far so good...

i did lose a strawberry plant, however, whilst it was still on teh window sill!

it got black specks all over it and died.

any idea what killed it?

forgot to say - anyone any good with fruit trees? the apple tree blossomed but not the plum tree, some of its branches still have no new growth or leaves. They were planted last year and are young, will I get fruit this year?

could they have got damp in storage fishie? You are right they ought to work - the fact you've had several different things fail makes me wonder about the storage.

bump!

there is a cooking apple tree in the back that fruits every year, move, but i'm not sure how long it takes a young tree to fruit.

i love watching bumble bees drunkenly buzzing round the lavender and rosemary bushes.

You won't get fruit without blossom, sorry. Maybe too young yet?

The apple trees in this garden are already blossoming, FWIW.

I planted some tomatoes and cucumbers out in their growbags today. They are all over a foot tall.

I also have some in the conservatory, which is looking more like a greenhouse as it has peppers and chillies in it as well. The peppers and chillies are still very small - only a few inches high.

I also have several tubs of lettuce, a few beetroot and a couple of strawberry plants, all in pots outside.

our landlord has a small polytunnel in a shed he says we can use.

i'm going to google and see what it will be best for for a yield next year or in autumn.