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A bit behind this year.
My first early pots are just begining to show, put the second earlies in about a week ago, and today planted the maincrop! And discovered a few tomatoes begining to form. Alan |
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A bit behind this year.
In article , "Alan Holmes" writes: | | My first early pots are just begining to show, put the second earlies in | about a week ago, and today planted the maincrop! | | And discovered a few tomatoes begining to form. A BIT! My first broad beans are showing pods, but the only things I have cropped are rocket, goosefoot (self-sown), spinach and strawberries. I haven't even planted out my warm-weather crops yet, and most are 1" high. What is more, 75% of that was NOT me being late, but the catastrophicly cold spring. Dammit, I lost 90% of my broccoli due to the winter and have had to sow my French beans FOUR times, because they rotted due to the cold (UNDER GLASS) :-( Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , "Alan Holmes" writes: | | My first early pots are just begining to show, put the second earlies in | about a week ago, and today planted the maincrop! | | And discovered a few tomatoes begining to form. A BIT! My first broad beans are showing pods, but the only things I have cropped are rocket, goosefoot (self-sown), What's goosefoot? I've lifted a few very small potatoes because they were in the asparagus bed, greenhouse tomatoes are about three mm diameter (the biggest!), I'm cropping lettuce leaves every couple of days from the greenhouse. Other small saladings are useful, otherwise rocket, Easter ledge, endive and some very small yellow courgettes have been eaten to date. Lots of herbs of course but the chervil is just about gone. Oh, and a few strawberries but I only have one plant. The gooseberries are all but ready but there aren't many, we moved the bush last autumn. But it's all coming on splendidly! I tell myself. Mary |
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In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | What's goosefoot? Chenopodium album. An annual weed of waste ground, which can be used (and tastes) almost exactly like spinach. The seeds are edible, too, and are like Amaranthus. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | What's goosefoot? Chenopodium album. An annual weed of waste ground, which can be used (and tastes) almost exactly like spinach. The seeds are edible, too, and are like Amaranthus. Oh ... Thanks .... Mary still in the dark :-) |
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"Mary Fisher" wrote "Nick Maclaren" wrote "Mary Fisher" writes: | What's goosefoot? Chenopodium album. An annual weed of waste ground, which can be used (and tastes) almost exactly like spinach. The seeds are edible, too, and are like Amaranthus. Oh ... Thanks .... Mary still in the dark :-) It's also known as Fat Hen so p'raps your chickens eat it all before you get to see any. -- Sue |
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"Sue" wrote in message reenews.net... "Mary Fisher" wrote "Nick Maclaren" wrote "Mary Fisher" writes: | What's goosefoot? Chenopodium album. An annual weed of waste ground, which can be used (and tastes) almost exactly like spinach. The seeds are edible, too, and are like Amaranthus. Oh ... Thanks .... Mary still in the dark :-) It's also known as Fat Hen so p'raps your chickens eat it all before you get to see any. Ah! I know Fat hen, thanks :-) No, it doesn't grow in our garden, hasn't done for years. Nor do daisies or colstfoot, to my sorrow. they all used to, but stopped well before we had the hens. Strangely, they grow in neighbouring gardens ... Mary -- Sue |
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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... We're eating (outdoor) potatoes, lettuce and rhubarb. But I've had the worst-ever year for seed germination in the open garden; the peas and broad beans are just pathetic, rocket even worse, and I have a grand total of 4 sweetcorn plants. Runner beans are sitting at the bottom of their wigwam playing dumb; yesterday I tied them all to their stake to give them a clue. Yes, I got five runner bean plants only - saved seed sown in the greenhouse and planted out some weeks ago, well watered and protected. One is about three feet high, two rather less, one having to be shown what to do and one sulking. And they're usually the most reliable crop :-( I haven't sown in the open since we got the greenhouse, we only need a few plants of each kind so I have more control over numbers if it's done indoors. I do get over enthusiastic about tomatoes though ... Mary |
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A bit behind this year.
We've had lettuce, moungetout, peas, rocket spuds, Garlic,
strawberries(just a few). Had some Parmex carrots, radishes Got some japanese overwintering oinions I'm about to dig up although they seem to be ready a bit early. Lot's of rosemary , french tarrogon( done really well this year), Tyme so not too bad |
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Gardening_Convert wrote:
We've had lettuce, moungetout, peas, rocket spuds, Garlic, strawberries(just a few). Had some Parmex carrots, radishes Got some japanese overwintering oinions I'm about to dig up although they seem to be ready a bit early. Lot's of rosemary , french tarrogon( done really well this year), Tyme so not too bad Strawberries just started ripening here in low ground of North Staffordshire. Been digging new potatoes for 2 weeks, have some lettuce. Summer cabbage coming on fine, all cauliflowers died! Looking to have a good crop of sweet cherries, gauges and peaches, apple setting poor. Collared doves have discovered my garden this year, so just had to plant more peas, well netted this time! |
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... We're eating (outdoor) potatoes, lettuce and rhubarb. But I've had the worst-ever year for seed germination in the open garden; the peas and broad beans are just pathetic, rocket even worse, and I have a grand total of 4 sweetcorn plants. Runner beans are sitting at the bottom of their wigwam playing dumb; yesterday I tied them all to their stake to give them a clue. Yes, I got five runner bean plants only - saved seed sown in the greenhouse and planted out some weeks ago, well watered and protected. One is about three feet high, two rather less, one having to be shown what to do and one sulking. And they're usually the most reliable crop :-( I haven't sown in the open since we got the greenhouse, we only need a few plants of each kind so I have more control over numbers if it's done indoors. I do get over enthusiastic about tomatoes though ... Mary It's kinda the other way round for me - outdoor sown rocket, radish and spinach have all done ok and I've been eating them for a few weeks. My runner beans are also great - about 6 foot high and flowering well. The only problem I really had this year was with my tomatoes, which started off ok, altho I started them a little late, but when I put them outside they suffered in the wind and very hot sun a few weeks ago. They now seem to have recovered somewhat but no flowers to be seen yet. Wish I had a greenhouse... Eleni. |
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Mary Fisher wrote: Ah! I know Fat hen, thanks :-) If memory serves, it's what appeared in my main ornamental bed last year, and which was kindly id'd here. I had come up with the rather daring theory that it was a diseased dahlia.... seen as it was growing besides a couple, and in many ways, the structure of the plant looked a bit the same... only a bit different. Anyway, I was soon put right out of my folly by the kind and knowledgeable folks here... I may yet see it again, because I only pulled it once it was covered in nicely ripe seeds :-) No, it doesn't grow in our garden, hasn't done for years. Nor do daisies or colstfoot, to my sorrow. they all used to, but stopped well before we had the hens. Strangely, they grow in neighbouring gardens ... I say this all the time... how come *my* plants look so much better *next door* :-( Cat(h) |
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Alan Holmes wrote: My first early pots are just begining to show, put the second earlies in about a week ago, and today planted the maincrop! And discovered a few tomatoes begining to form. Alan Gasp. You're late??? Mine (toms) are only just starting to show flowers !! So far, we have consumed rhubarb, rocket (left over from winter planting, hair cut regularly, so it keeps giving me leaves which are increasingly peppery, to my delight) fresh rocket planting not harvestable yet. I have consumed some lettuce thinnings to make room, armfulls of herbs (I have without a doubt the best herb bed in the British Isles, and you'll have to take my word), radishes, 1 asparagus stem (it didn't make it to the kitchen, never mind get cooked). Strawberries are formed but desperately green - I must think of netting them this week end without fail, or risk having nothing to show for my efforts. Raspberry crop will be good - that is netted. Blackcurrant bush spectacularly laden, also netted, though all green as yet. Red currant sulking with one or two miserly strings of berries - they just didn't form. Gooseberries (netted) absolutely laden with stuff, but taking their own sweet time to sweeten and soften. Blackberries just finished flowering - good crop I hope, but only one plant. Fabulous success - so far with my first ever planting of broad beans - all germinated, all in flower, I haven't seen them in a few days, and could see beginnings of pods this week end. Runner beans a disaster, like so many others on urg - two wigwams with only 5 plants germinated between them, which have taken forever to germinate, and still look miserly. Fortunately, one of my wigwams is well laden with another type of climbing bean - but I lost the label - and the dwarf french are also doing ok. Just as well, I can't get enough beans. Peas germinated well in a cold frame this late spring, and they are scaling their wigwams and starting to flower - so far so good. I also have some kohlrabi - not hectic - some now healthy looking brussels sprouts, saved from the pigeons by two double CD's of Tom Jones Greatest Hits (free with some Sunday paper), two rows of my beloved salsify - one rather more successful than the other. And three courgettes about to conquer the planet and provoke all my friends, just like last year, to cross the road when they see me coming... Amazing. As I write it all out, I realise how much stuff I am managing to grow with reasonable success (cross toes). The beloved - who has as much interest in matters horticultural as I have in trainspotting - smiles magnanimously at my business around the garden, and is mildly benevolent in the face of my enthusiastic gardeny gushings. Growing his favourite lettuce and brussels sprouts is my way to make him more interested, as well as trying to share the burden of consuming the glut... All the same, it's great to garden, is it not? Cat(h) |
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"Cat(h)" wrote in message oups.com... envious snip Blackberries just finished flowering - good crop I hope, but only one plant. Our blackberries aren't even flowering yet! Where are you? All the same, it's great to garden, is it not? Yes. Mutter chunter s'not fair ... Mary Cat(h) |
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from Janet Baraclough contains these words: The message from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words: In article , "Alan Holmes" writes: | | My first early pots are just begining to show, put the second earlies in | about a week ago, and today planted the maincrop! | | And discovered a few tomatoes begining to form. A BIT! My first broad beans are showing pods, but the only things I have cropped are rocket, goosefoot (self-sown), spinach and strawberries. I haven't even planted out my warm-weather crops yet, and most are 1" high. What is more, 75% of that was NOT me being late, but the catastrophicly cold spring. Dammit, I lost 90% of my broccoli due to the winter and have had to sow my French beans FOUR times, because they rotted due to the cold (UNDER GLASS) :-( We're eating (outdoor) potatoes, lettuce and rhubarb. But I've had the worst-ever year for seed germination in the open garden; the peas and broad beans are just pathetic, rocket even worse, and I have a grand total of 4 sweetcorn plants. Runner beans are sitting at the bottom of their wigwam playing dumb; yesterday I tied them all to their stake to give them a clue. Janet. -- Isle of Arran Open Gardens weekend 21,22,23 July 2006 5 UKP three-day adult ticket (funds go to island charities) buys entry to 26 private gardens I'm also eating outdoor potatoes (Lady Christl which have done really well) and various lettuces. I have a glut of mangetout, good broad beans, rather sparse peas, excellent calabrese with the biggest heads I've ever had, some spinach beet, Hispi cabbage and from the poytunnel carrots and one or two small cucumbers. I haven't attempted outdoor germination of much at all except for leeks and carrots for some time now because of mouse (or vole?) damage. Janet G |
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