The what's growing in your veggie plot 2010

[dickymint]

Following on from last season....... http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f...

Get digging PHers

Edited by dickymint on Sunday 21st March 11:43

[madbadger]

As of today still in packets:

Potatoes
Shallots
Red Onions
Carrot
Tomato
Leaf salad
Spinach
Peas
Beetroot
Squash

Bit of a step up from last year, but this year I have 2 greenhouses and a proper veg plot to play with.

[hooperpride]

Should be getting the following seeds free:
- Carrots
- French beans
- Courgette
- Basil
- and a varitety of salad leaves
Normally I wouldn't bother but for free I'll give it a go. Here's a link if anyone else wants some seeds to give it a go http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/digin/apply_for_see...

[Pferdestarke]

Tomatoes, obviously
Kolrhabi
Salsify
Courgettes
Carrots
Vietnamese coriander
Curry plant
Parsley
Mint
Spearmint
Rosemary
Marjoram
Lemon verbena

We have shoots already from planting last week.

[missdiane]

Tomato
Chilli
Peppers
Basil
Cucumber
Courgette
Radish
Parsley

Next on list
Sweetcorn
Chives
Thyme
Beetroot
Carrot

All in pots as we only have a small bed
Not normally successful either, but we'll see

[spikeyhead]

Nothing this year for me, working abroad may pay very well but just doesn't leave me the time for the enjoyable stuff at home.

[eldar]

Garlick and weeds as of this morning. Then just garlick, then add onion sets.

Now time for a beer

[staceyb]

We have
Charlotte and Maris Pipers
Garlic
Cabbage
Red Onions
White Onions
Carrots
Scallions
Rocket

[TimJMS]

The cloches came off last week and outside we have overwintered Aquadulce broad beans and onions. Still picking last years brussels sprouts. Ate the last of the cabbages in February, and the last leeks in January.

Planted a row of first earlies on saturday evening in the rain, variety 'Foremost'. Very nicely chitted before they went in. Put them in reasonably deep with a good 3 inches of soil covering them. Anyone experimented with black polythene in this situation to bring them on faster?

Under glass nicely growing away now after having been germinated in the airing cupboard in modules from seed sown in late January we have bush tomatoes 'Tumbler Tom', cauliflowers 'All Year Round', leeks 'Musselburgh' and cucumber 'Marketmore 76'.

Here's to a great 2010. Get digging

[beejay]

Lettuce, cucumber and peas planted today. Got some potatoes, tomatoes and onions ready to go this week when I get chance, trying then for the first time so should be an interesting year

[WTD]

Out here in Tokyo, my balcony resembles a planting trough field at the moment! haha

Have planted
Potatos (got some leaves showing now)
Tomatoes
Chives
Strawberrys
Rosemary
Some pea thing

Want to plant some chilli plants, but finding decent chilli seeds out here is an absolute nightmare, no-where at all stocks them!

[XJSJohn]

Curretly have

• Coriander
• Taragon
• Thyme
• Sage
• Chives
• Tomatoes
• Chilli's
• Coconuts
• Mango's
• Limes
• Rambutans
• a stinking durian tree that i am trying to kill off without the missus realising!

[sherman]

hooperpride said:

Should be getting the following seeds free:
- Carrots
- French beans
- Courgette
- Basil
- and a varitety of salad leaves
Normally I wouldn't bother but for free I'll give it a go. Here's a link if anyone else wants some seeds to give it a go http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/digin/apply_for_see...

Cheers for that link I shall now await my free seeds.

My free seeds have arrived and they shall now be getting planted out in the allotment as soon as we build a fence around it to stop the wind and wildlife from eating everything.

Edited by sherman on Wednesday 28th April 00:44

[sherman]

eldar said:

Garlick and weeds as of this morning. Then just garlick, then add onion sets.

Now time for a beer

One Garlick is quite enough for round here thank you very much

I think you are meaning that you are growing garlic

[cinque]

Having a go properly this year.

Got myself a cheap 12ft polytunnel with 6.5ft head height, spent most of Sat in there tottering about. Fixed up some old plastic shelving as make-shift stageing.

Trying from seed for the 1st time.

In the trays currently, Lettuce (Mixed incl. Rocket , Endive).

In the propagator now, Tomato (100's and 1000's), Strawberrys (alpine), Cucumber.

Germinating in clear bags, Chilli (Cayenne , Dorset Naga and Scotch Bonnet) & Sweet-peppers (Mixed).

In the spud bags, 1st earlies (salad variety) 2nd earlies ready for next w/e (cheated a little and bought them pre-chitted).

Awaiting sowing in 2 weeks time, Runner Beans, French Beans, Marrow, Courgette, Carrots, Beetroot & Sweetcorn.

I bought some long troughs, approx. 6ft long and 12in deep and have drilled the bottoms for drainage, would these be ok to plant small Carrots & Beetroot in drills??



Also in pots in a sheltered spot all the herbs. Rosemary, Blackcurrant Thyme, Sage, Chives, 3 diff. Oregano, Parsley, Tarragon & Basil, all of which were trimmed back at the end of last year and all seem to have started sprouting again (much to my amazement!).

Edited by cinque on Monday 22 March 10:38

[pies]

So far I have

leeks at seedling stage

brandywhine toms
Black russian toms
black cherry toms
sweet million toms
gardeners delight toms
tumbling tom toms

Rubens sweet pepper
Early spuds (jersey royals)
Second early spuds (kestral)
Habanaro chili
Purple sprouting
Brussels
Cabbage
Broad beans
Garlic
Elephant garlic,more leek flavour than garlic
Winter onions
Shallots,various types
Summer onions red and white
beetroot
radish
lettuce

Just getting ready to start sowing everything else


And its going here

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/members...

[racing green]

Nice to see that even here on Pistonheads where I can wind down and talk cars up crops the day job!
Good to see so many growing at home - there's nothing to beat it.
In the glasshouse in trays at the mo
Broad Beans - Statissa, Imperial green longpod, Karmazyn
Onions - Ailsae, Kelsae, Ailsa Craig, Bedfordshire Champion, Giant Zittau, Rjinsburger
Lettuce - Lollo Rosso, Salad Bowl, Stealth, Clarion, Little Gem
Chard - Bright Lights
Celeriac - Monarch
Aubergine - Moneymaker
Parsley - Envy
Pepper - Jumbo, Worldbeater, Ringo
Brussels Sprouts - Trafalgar, Maximus
Globe Artichoke
Beetroot - Red Ace
Shallot - Hative De Niort
Garlic - Lautrec Wight
In cold frames - Carrots - Mokum, Purple Haze, Healthmaster
Cabbage Spring Hero
In the walled garden - Parsnip - Palace, Gladiator, Javelin, Countess
Kale - Redbor
Leek - Musselburgh, Bandit, Carlton, Winter Crop
Rhubarb
Asparagus - not up yet!
Herbs
In storage - Potatoes - Pink Fir Apple, Desiree, Salad Blue, Vivaldi, Valour, Nicola, Nadine
Shallots
Seed waiting to be sown - too many to write down

[eps]

Nowt as yet... but intend on..

Tomatoes (F1 variety - very tasty straight off the vine)

Spring Onions

Onions

Beetroot

That's about our lot to be honest. Most of the other stuff just doesn't seem to do very well for us.

Chillis - both red and green

The blackcurrants, Gooseberries, Raspberries are all starting to show signs of growth. Hopefully the roohbarb will start to make an appearance soon.

The garlic has already started and I should really plant the bulbils as well from last year..

We've got stacks of woodchips still left from 12+ months ago, they need to go down "everywhere" to suppress the weeds and also there seem to be quite a few people wanting to get rid of manure around here, so will pick a bit of that up next week as well, before the bark chips, to give a bit back.

ETA : Basil as well, almost forgot!! That was great last year.

Garden already has Chives, Mint (!) and Rosemary in it.

Edited by eps on Tuesday 23 March 23:13

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sherman said:

hooperpride said:

Should be getting the following seeds free:
- Carrots
- French beans
- Courgette
- Basil
- and a varitety of salad leaves
Normally I wouldn't bother but for free I'll give it a go. Here's a link if anyone else wants some seeds to give it a go http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/digin/apply_for_see...

Cheers for that link I shall now await my free seeds.

+1 Free stuff is always handy!

[zac510]

Signed up for free seeds too

I have had good success with strawberries in the past couple of years so I'm expanding that patch. That patch takes most of the best light that I get unfortunately (north facing garden).

Apart from that I only have a couple of mid-size pots for plants so the seed pack should be perfect.