MrsDangermouse
Guru
On the allotment we've got garlic and onions that we've grown over the winter. The onions are looking nice and plump but aren't quite ready to lift yet. We lifted the garlic yesterday - its been reasonably successful this year though we lost a few of them to birds. We planted 9 bulbs of Caulk Wight this time which is less than we did the year before, but they're a good size so I hopefully we should have enough to last us.
This year we've got potatoes growing - only first earlies (Red Duke of York) and maincrops (Rooster) - we're still learning how much we need to grow of each crop to last us just until the next year's harvest and we've still got loads of last year's potatoes left over so we obviously grew far too many before! (last year we grew one each of first and second earlies & maincrop).
The rhubarb survived the winter fine and is growing strongly - see my recipe for rhubarb gin
The strawberries (Flamenco) that we put in last year have come back really well and have multiplied so we had our first crop (1.3kg) on Monday:
We're trying melons too for the first time under a little plastic greenhouse/coldframe thingy - time will tell whether this will work or not!
We still haven't had a decent crop from the horseradish - we're growing it in a plastic dustbin to try to stop it spreading out and taking over, but last year we only had some very thin little roots. Hopefully this year it will have grown some nice fat ones. We'll put some cabbages in later to eat over the winter.
In the garden we're growing the usual tomatoes and chillies in the greenhouse, and cucumbers, spring onions, radishes and salad in the raised beds. We haven't done very well with sweetcorn in the past so this time we're trying some baby sweetcorn instead. Also trying beetroot and celery for the first time, and something called Celtuce - though it doesn't look like this one has worked because nothing has come through
Oh and leeks and carrots too (also for winter supplies).
Still doesn't look like we're going to get anything from our pear trees We had loads of blossom on the Williams but no tfruit (we had baby fruit last year so there's obviously a pollination partner around somewhere!). The Concorde didn't blossom at all - its probably still too young. Still, once we get them both blossoming they should pollinate each other. Just have to be patient 
This year we've got potatoes growing - only first earlies (Red Duke of York) and maincrops (Rooster) - we're still learning how much we need to grow of each crop to last us just until the next year's harvest and we've still got loads of last year's potatoes left over so we obviously grew far too many before! (last year we grew one each of first and second earlies & maincrop).
The rhubarb survived the winter fine and is growing strongly - see my recipe for rhubarb gin
The strawberries (Flamenco) that we put in last year have come back really well and have multiplied so we had our first crop (1.3kg) on Monday:
We're trying melons too for the first time under a little plastic greenhouse/coldframe thingy - time will tell whether this will work or not!
We still haven't had a decent crop from the horseradish - we're growing it in a plastic dustbin to try to stop it spreading out and taking over, but last year we only had some very thin little roots. Hopefully this year it will have grown some nice fat ones. We'll put some cabbages in later to eat over the winter.
In the garden we're growing the usual tomatoes and chillies in the greenhouse, and cucumbers, spring onions, radishes and salad in the raised beds. We haven't done very well with sweetcorn in the past so this time we're trying some baby sweetcorn instead. Also trying beetroot and celery for the first time, and something called Celtuce - though it doesn't look like this one has worked because nothing has come through
Oh and leeks and carrots too (also for winter supplies).Still doesn't look like we're going to get anything from our pear trees
We had loads of blossom on the Williams but no tfruit (we had baby fruit last year so there's obviously a pollination partner around somewhere!). The Concorde didn't blossom at all - its probably still too young. Still, once we get them both blossoming they should pollinate each other. Just have to be patient
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we saw it in the seed catalogue book at the allotment and decided to give it a go. We like to try at least one new or unusual veg per year, last year was cucamelons.....they grew fine but we weren't keen on them.
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