What have you got planted?

[Millymollymandy]

I think the question should be "out of everything that you planted, what are you eating?"

On the veggie front it is ........... lettuce.

[red]

yeh - its been a terrible year so far in UK - that strange bright shiney round thing (forgotton what's called) came out today and the courgette plant that was feeling a bit down died of shock...

successful so far for me is
potatoes
sorrel
some peas (but really pathetic given the effort put in)
radishes
lettuce
beetroot - but i only pulled them cos they were starting to bolt!
baby carrots grown in a pot
and herbs

my toms look pretty poor

[Millymollymandy]

Oh poor courgette plant! I've been watching my first courgette grow for the last week, about 1mm a day, until yesterday I discovered it rotting! Now I am watching the second one...... sad innit!

[red]

harvested our first courgette today ( and only finished last years frozen ones last week!) yay

but find my courgettes, pumpkin vegetable spagetti all show signs of cucumber mosaic virus


what next? sigh

[the.fee.fairy]

I've been useless at growing peas, and none of anythign else seems to have grown enough to bear fruit. There's a couple of tomato plants thinking about it.

I've had strawberries, but not enough to make it a decent amount.

Still waiting for the broad beans and courgettes. The broad bean plants have grown nicely, but there's not sign of beans yet.

Runner beans are climbing well, but again there's not sign of setting fruit yet.

With any luck, the potatoes with legs will produce at least enough for one meal.

Ho hum...

[Annpan]

I've spent the morning planting out yet more lettuce, I haven't had any yet, but I think I am too eager and planting way more than we can eat... mind you I am feedin the local slug population ... on that note, a toad jumped on my foot... yikes, it was a big fella, eeeeuuugh!

My seeds all managed to get wet carefully placed in the shed right under a leak so I have planted as much as I can of beetroot and spinach but I don't know what else I can do

Had to dig over the dead squash plants and lost onion patch My broad beans have some lovely juicey pods on them wich need picking but everything else is too small. Not feeling too great about it all just now, just seem to be putting in alot of effort and not getting any yummy stuff yet.

[SueSteve]

We are eating COurgettes, Potatoes, Onions, Mange tout, chard.
We also have runner beans, dwarf french beans, sugar snap peas, loads of squash, brocolli, psb, sweded, lettuce, radish, leeks, carrots, sp onions, parsnips.
We are a family of 5 veggies, and we seem to eat things as fast as they grow!! e.g. picked courgetts this morning, going in the pot this evening!!
Definately need a bigger plot!

[adekun]

This is what I have in the ground - unless it has floated out.

Tomatoes (iko and momotaro)
Aubergines
P-man (Japanese peppers)
Sweet Potatoes
Cucumbers
Sweetcorn
Potatoes (tokachikogane & danshaku)
Chilli Peppers

Onions and garlic pulled a couple of weeks ago.
Asparagus has another year to go.

It has been really wet but most of the plants have held up well.

[Jandra]

What am I eating out of what I have planted at the moment...

French beans
Courgette
Carrots
The first tomatoes
(blight stricken , I'm counting on no more than 10 edible tomatoes this year )
Leeks
Garlic
Chard
Bell peppers
Lettuce

Will lift some potatoes this week and the beetroot can be harvested too. And maybe a parsnip or two. Mmmmm....

Regards, Jandra

[red]

you are eating leeks? mine still looks like grass...

[Millymollymandy]

That's what I thought!

[Jandra]

Yes, leeks. Not fat leeks, mind you, but leeks nontheless.

The other allotment society in our town has a weekly plant sale for a few weeks in spring and then another in the last weekend of June for winter veg.

I got leek and cabbage plants in April and am now eating both (so I forgot to mention the cabbage in my first list).

The leeks I sowed myself are also in the grassy-looks stage.

Best regards, Jandra

[Millymollymandy]

Thanks for the explanation!

[Peggy Sue]

I am trying to beat the massive slug population with every trick in teh book and have managed to feed ourselves on lettuce/ salad leaves since may, but I ahve to say the slugs have done far better than us- even eaten my corriander!

The patio is an assult course of pots balanced on metal grids, sticky from vaseline round the rims.

Tiny carrots
Few raspberries
loads of blackcurrents
courgettes look close

Food for free is good: mushrooms and plums this week!

Frustratingly I ahve the promise of an allotment next month and have started everything I possibly could in pots ready- including carrots, beetroot and turnips, peas and broad beans- all desperate for a home now!

[yugogypsy]

Jerusalem artichokes, kale, 2 types of chard, 3 types of squash, onions,5 kinds of potatoes, 4 kinds of tomatoes, eggplants, thyme, sage, oregano, sweet cicely, mangels, collards, short and long beetroots, parsnips, carrots, lavendar, horseradish, white currants, yellow plums, canteloupe, cukes, peas, beans, a welsh(walking) onion, red cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, calendulas, (to keep moth off cabbage), peppers, chives, corn, courgettes, basil,and I think thats it. Just finished freezing the spinach, have frozen 4 litres strawberries,

Lois