Grow Your Own

Has anyone been growing their own veg this year?  We've moved to a place that had an established veggie plot and greenhouse, so thought it would be nice to try growing some tomatillos.  Bought my seeds and started the little guys, not realising that a packet of seed makes a whole lotta plants!  Now, I'm starting to harvest my crop,,,feel like a real farmer! Also, tomato's have done exceptionally well! Now looking forward to next year and what might go in the garden!!

We've had courgettes and potatoes with some good results this year.  Tomatoes rather meh.  Basil and Cilantro enough for a few recipes and the odd strawberry.

Last year had a good crop of tomatoes. This year not a single tomato from 6 plants. No idea why.

Nothing this year, thanks to moving and living in flats...

Hoping someday in the next few years that we'll actually get our allotments that we're fighting the council for

I have a black thumb.

We don't have much garden space, but hubby is growing brussel sprouts and curly kale in container-tubs.  Also, our in-laws gave us a cherry tomato plant but it's about done now.  Plus we always have a bumper crop from our kitchen herb garden - mostly of oregano & marjoram.

We've had courgettes, potatoes, French beans, mixed lettuce, mustard, sage, basil, coriander, peppers, chillis and pak choi that have all done really well.  My tomato plants have a lot of green fruit but are only just starting to ripen.  Now that the weather's turned cold and rainy, I don't know if they'll be very successful in the end.  I may be making a lot of green tomato chutney in a few weeks' time.  Most of our stuff we grow in raised beds or pots, it works really well!  We've got even bigger plans for next year.  DH has really found a passion in veg gardening, he's like a kid with new toys.  And we looove eating our homegrown produce! 

Nothing this year, thanks to moving and living in flats...

Hoping someday in the next few years that we'll actually get our allotments that we're fighting the council for

Whoohooo reviving this thread because I have an allotment now. Wheee!!! We're starting to plan out and propagate seeds, so we want ideas!!     

Yay for tomatillos!! I grew them for the first time last year! Things I learned - you MUST keep them very warm until they're at least a foot tall (so you need a greenhouse or very sunny windowsill). Only plant them out after you're absolutely sure there won't be any more front. Once they're outside, stake them really well as they love to grow tall and bushy. And feed with tomato fertiliser when you do your tomatoes, too (I learned this the hard way last year - I neglected to feed them at all at first, and then they didn't really like my seaweed fertiliser). And they freeze really well if you take the husks off.

This is my fourth year on the boat and the third year I've done a big veggie garden on deck. This year I've planted: lettuce, spinach, spring onions, carrots, radishes, spaghetti squash, marrow, courgettes, tomatillos, tomatoes, potatoes, peas, french beans, and aubergines. Plus a ton of strawberry plans and herbs from past years, and I was just bought some blueberry bushes for my birthday but they haven't arrived yet.

The only crop I would NOT grow again is purple sprouting broccoli - I had to wait over a year to eat the things, and for a 3 month span, had to pick tiny caterpillars off its leaves EVERY SINGLE DAY. Waaaaay too much work. I'm happy to pay the premium for it in stores now!

Oh! And some cat grass for our kitty, too. That stuff shoots up SO fast!

This year I'm in container gardening, so mostly I have herbs and I've got starts on tomatoes 'Red Baconi'  & 'Golden Cherry F1' and peppers 'Joe's Long Cayenne' & 'Golden Bell F1' - they're all showing true leaves and the tomatoes are starting to put some good growth on. I've got a ton of ornamentals this year. I miss having a huge garden & allotment.

If anyone wants to swap seeds at all I have the following things available for swap:
Rudbeckia 'Indian Summer'
Sweet Pea 'High Scent'
Parsnip 'Panache F1'
Basil 'Christmas'
Legousia Pentagonia

And I might have more to swap later in the year.

I'm in the US and we are doing our usual tomatoes and peppers. I want to try carrots and beets again but we have rabbits from hell so I'm not sure how that will go. I usually try some savoy cabbage as well. I'd like to try cukes and pumpkin one more time but I've not had luck yet. Oh, and I want lettuce, too. And peas.

Must do some planning asap!

Started my tomatillos awhile back now and they're coming along really well.  Planted potatoes in heavy black bin bags and they're growing like crazy...I do have a greenhouse, which really helps! 

River Cottage had an open day (at the farm) a couple of weeks ago and I got some great help, ideas and seeds from that,,so i'm ready to get growing!

Oooh that's pretty awesome that ya'll are already growing stuff. Its just now getting to the point where we can start to plant hearty things that like the cold here. 
 
We've got plans for mostly potatoes to break up the soil as its our first year in the allotment, but we're gonna try some other hearty things as well like lettuces, corgettes and leeks to see how we get on as well.   

I'm so excited!

We're trying to start a little container garden, and last weekend picked up and re-potted a couple of herbs: parsley, coriander, thyme, sage, rosemary and lavender. Oh, and our mint from last year survived the winter and is thriving.

The house we're moving to has a great big massive garden.  The people who are there now (the owners, who we're going to rent from) have a nice herb garden already established along with flowers and such, and they left a bit of the rest of the garden unplanted because they knew we were interested in planting some veg. 

We won't be there until the last weekend in May, so I'm not sure what we're going to be able to plant, but I really want to try pumpkins!  BF is the green thumb in the relationship, so I'm just going to take his lead. 

Oh, and we will have established compost bins when we move in as well, which I've always wanted!  Sooooo excited!

Poblano pepper plugs just arrived and boy are they beautiful!! Just need to pot them, speak nicely and introduce them to their new greenhouse mates -;).  Tomatillos have started to flower, as well as tomatoes,,,looks like it might be a good veg year!