Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Gardening

Find tips and tricks to make your garden or allotment flourish on our Gardening forum.

How are peoples veggies growing?

41 replies

snorkle · 29/05/2008 15:22

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.

OP posts:
MsPontipine · 29/05/2008 23:20

6 one inch high cherry tomato seedlings transplanted tonight into their own pots - sitting on mine and ds's bedroom window sills.

Fingers crossed!

midnightexpress · 30/05/2008 08:43

Let us know how you get on with the polytunnel expat - we're thinking of getting a small one for our garden (once we clear the 3 foot high brambles that is, but that's another thread altogether). I believe garlic is very easy and also broad beans. It sounds as if others will have more advice.

Iota · 30/05/2008 10:49

bloody hell! I am distraught. Put the tomatoes out yesterday and one of them has been eaten already.

I have just put some slug pellets down - I hate using them, but I want to save the rest of my crop

Psychobabble · 30/05/2008 10:56

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Heartmum2Jamie · 03/06/2008 15:38

I am new here, but this is my second year veg growing.

Things seem to be going well.

The pear tree flowered and is now bearing some fruit - yay!

The strawberries have also flowered and are bearing a fair bit of fruit, some are just starting to turn red - yum!

The garlic are doing well, nice tall stalks, looking healthy. Same for the onion sets.

Pepper plants don't seem to have gained any hieght at all since I put them outside, but the ones in the garden centres are the same sort of size, so maybe it isn't just me.

My seed grown toms took a real beating in last weeks winds. Shockingly, some are still flowering. We also bought an italian baby plum tom plant from the garden centre over the weekend. It is in flower too.

We got around to putting the pumpkins (the ds's) into thier final growing position, the flower buds are quite obvious now.

In the raised beds, the peas are doing well and we have been eating them. The second sowing are about 2 inches high right now. the 4 brocolli plants are getting their first true leaves (late sowing). The courgette in the next bed are looking good and healthy, about to flower. The radish is doing well and the spring onions have finally sprung.

In the deep bed we have 2 kinds of carrot and 2 sowings of leek, all doing well. The carrot could use thinning out, but I don't want to encourage carrot fly. Guess we will eat some baby carrots and then allow the rest to continue growing.

In the salad bed we have sweet corn which also seem to be stuck at 9 inches tall. The beetroot is doing ok, the rocket has really taken off and we are harvesting it a bit at a time. The lettuce is taking it's time. Of 2 cucumber plants, one looks very nibbled on, the other is ok. I think I may sow some more and grow on the windowsill as backup. Doing the same with a second type of courgete.

Herbs, we have chives, mint and flat parsley. The MIL gave us some basil which we will keep indoors. We have also just sown some more cooriander as have eaten the rest, lol!

The potatoes are doing well, about to flower. However, my area is in a full smith period right now (according to blightwatch). I am keeping a close eye on my crop this year after losing the whole shebang (potatoes and toms) to blight last year. Thankfully I put them in really early last year, so still had a sizeable crop from them, just not as big as it could have been.

Without the warm snap we had last year, everything seems slower growing so we have hardly harvested anything, when last year we were already eating a fair bit out of the garden.

Catz · 03/06/2008 21:22

Wow- have just harvested my first cucumber (greenhouse) haven't grown them before as am usually not that fussed by cucumbers but it was so nice - really sweet. Am v. impressed.

Other than that:
courgettes flowering (but only male so far)
Winter squash too small - still first leaves
Early potatoes starting to flower
Some tomatoes set
Peppers/chilis just starting to flower
Aubergines have buds on them
sage/mint/thyme/parsley and lemon balm all doing well but corriander slugged
Salad all eaten by slugs
beetroot all leaves and nothing underneath
shallots, onions and garlic all looking very healthy
a few apples on two mini-trees (first year) but plums and cherries didn't flower
Sweetcorn a bit rubbish - 2/3 inches high
Tomatillos flowering but nothing set
Cape gooseberries set (in greenhouse)

Erm... I think that's it...

flossiefumble · 03/06/2008 21:37

Message withdrawn

flossiefumble · 03/06/2008 21:39

Message withdrawn

BigBadMouse · 03/06/2008 21:56

redcurrant, blackcurrant, raspberries, blueberries, gooseberries, apples all showing lots of fruit.

Rhubarb has done really well - second year after transplant - lots of horse manure did the trick!

Watercress is huge, trifid-like...so easy to grow. Salad is doing well when it gets watered.

Garlic has gone yellow and disappeared - quite common for us for some reason. Onions and shallots doing really well.

Tomatoes, sweetcorn, pumpkin, courgette all keeling over as they haven't been planted out due to DS1 arriving last week.

Beans are 2 feet high in their original pots will take an age to untangle them and plant them out.

Carrots and parsnips have come up - need thinning out.

Anyone fancy a working holiday in cornwall working on my veggie garden while I constantly BF???????

bramblebooks · 03/06/2008 21:58

Evening.

Strawberries set fruit
Blueberries
Apples
Pears
Raspberries
Blackberries
redcurrants

yummy yummy so far! Hope the birds don't get too many!

Cardoons growing
no chokes yet on the artichokes
lettuces coming on well
rocket not rocketing
pumpkins and courgettes threatening to start a flower
tomatoes have a flower!
potatoes gradually being earthed up
beans 1 foot high
peas 6 inches
parsnips nicely sprouted
herbs aplenty
rhubarb ... huh, let's not go there

lucyellensmum · 03/06/2008 22:05

so of all your lovely veggies OP.

I have eaten some of my corgettes, i wish i planted some more later

Strawbs that i gave up on last year doing well

carrots slow to germinate but i think they doing ok

Salad and raddish - yummy

french beans doing well, no flowers yet

runner beans about 8" to a foot high, they have a wigwam this year woohooo

spring onions being slow and looking pathetic

apple tree has apples, but i suspect they will all fall off like they did last year

Rhubarb -

cabbage doing OK

Garlic, nothing came up

Spinach bolted

lucyellensmum · 03/06/2008 22:06

Bigbadmouse, me me me me me me me - but you have to look after DD for me

funnypeculiar · 03/06/2008 22:11

at lots of these

Toms - trying hanging ones this year. They are still very small
Peas, potatoes & french beans doing well
Pumpkins doing great guns
Cucumbers & butternut squash being slow
Courgettes starting to flower
Purple sprouting getting established

Have got lots of baby alpine strawberry plants, but put them in too late, so they won't be fruiting this year.

BigBadMouse · 03/06/2008 22:14

LUCYELLENSMUM - nope two DDs is enough for me thanks - the beans will just have to suffer!

fishie · 03/06/2008 22:18

miracle! some beans have germinated today. only three though so i think they will have to be in a container, not numerous enough to take their chances in slugville.

weebleswobble · 05/06/2008 21:04

I've got 2 tomatoes!!!!!!!

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread