What's grown & what's a moan.

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Heather_S

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What's grown & what's a moan.
« Reply #15 on: November 10, 2006, 09:41 »
Top 3
Potatoes - even though we didn't really prepare the soil properly, we have heaps of them and haven't seen a supermarket spud in the house since mid-June.
Carrots - when grown in rootrainers but they got a little forked and twisty but were otherwise chubby. They were started later than the few carrots that got direct sown and survived :lol: and they grew bigger and more quickly than those pipsqueaks.
Beetroot - Ashamed to say I bought these in modules at a garden centre but I ended up with about 3times the number of modules because I separated them all out and they survived that quite happily  :shock:

Bottom 3
Peas - peamoth unless I ate the pods of the purplepoddedpeas before they did.
Purple Climbing Beans - Hardly grew or produced but that was probably down to lack of proper cultivation of soil.
Turnips/Daikon earlier in the year - fleabeetles. I thought the turnips had all been killed off until I accidently found a little cluster of them. Daikon that I've planted much, much later in the year is absolutely thriving now that I've learned it's a winter radish  :lol:
wistfully hoping to one day be mostly organic gardener in North London.

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« Reply #16 on: November 17, 2006, 21:46 »
Top three

New Tats - great crop
Strawberries - brilliant this year
Onions - (from sets) good crop

Bottom three
Brassicas - didn't plant them deep enough on transplanting and got hammered by wind/rain and were ruined. Cabbage whites got loads too.
Apples - didn't spray - codling moth had a field day
Raspberries - okay but not as good as last year - probably needed more watering

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« Reply #17 on: November 17, 2006, 23:49 »
had a bumper year
peas. show perfection (brill)  mangetout (brill)
BROAD BEAN AQUADULCE CLAUDIA (BRILL)
RUNNER BEANS  ( BUCKET LOADS)
CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN FLAT PODDED (EXCEPTIONAL) BUCKETLOADS
ONIONS SETS STURON AND RED BARON 100 OF EACH (BRILL)
CARROTS MOST SUCCSESFUL YET IN THE PAST HAD BOTHER WITH CARROT FLY THIS YEAR USED RESISTAFLY.
CELERIAC FIRST TIME IVE GROWN IT ALABASTER 3 (DONE WELL BIGGER THAN IN SUPERMARKETS)
BEETROOT PERFECT 3   INCREDIBLY SUCSESSFULL SOME AS BIG AS GRAPEFRUIT NOT ONE SHOWED SIGNS OF WOODYNESS
TOMATOES BRITAINS BREAKFAST/ COSTALUTO FIORENTNO/ GARTEN PEARL ALL DID FANTASTIC
CHILIES NEVER TRIED THEM BEFORE  (BRIL)
POTATOES  LADY CRISTL AND KESTREL  HARDLY ANY SLUG DAMAGE THIS YEAR, IN PREVIOUS YEARS THEYVE HAMMERED ME.
RED CABBAGE HUGE 9 POUNDS IN WEIGHT.
CAULIFLOWERS 9 POUND HEADS
BROCCOLY MAGNIFICENT SPECIMENS. BUT ONE OF THEM SHOWED NO SIGN OF BUGS BUT AFTER THE WIFE HAD COOKED AND WAS DISHING IT UP LITTLE GREEN CRITTERS ( CATTERPILLARS ) FULL OF EM ,IT PUT ME OFF. THE WIFE SAID GET IT EATEN YOU MARD ASS I THINK SHE MUST BE IN THE S.A.S
BLACKCURRANT AND RED CURRANT( LOADS)
STRAWBERRIES (LOADS)
PLUMS AND DAMSONS COMING OUT OF MY EARS
STUFF THAT DIDNT DO SO GOOD. MARROW LONG GREEN TRAILING ONLY ONE MARROW  6 POUNDS IN WEIGHT
GOOSEBERRY DUE TO AMERICAN MILDEW ONLY ENOUGH FOR A SMALL PIE.

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« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2006, 09:14 »
Top 3

   Aubergines

   Parsnips,still growing

   broard beans,first year I`ve managed to pick enough for a meal.

   Bottom 3

  Chillis/peppers,lousey germination meant that I didn`t get many going so the crop is much smaller than usual

   carrots,all razed to the ground by slugs when I was away for a weekend,later sowing not so big and some only just cropping now so it is me vs slugs again.

    Outdoor cucumber,1st go at these,4 plants produced 3 mini cucumbers,the plants never seemed to really get going or flower much,no idea what I did wrong.

   An odd year most crops loved the hot weather but others not despite frequent watering,others did ok but were smaller than usual pots and onions especially.

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mum of 3

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« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2006, 09:59 »
top 3
 
  peas (plenty throughout the summer)
  pumpkin(we had a 65lb whopper and several good sized ones)
  leeks(all good sized


 bottom 3
  carrots(darn rabbits)
  brasiccas(white fly)
  shallots(planted too shallow i think)
  more successes than failures though so really happy with first year

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freyaluck

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« Reply #20 on: November 18, 2006, 11:59 »
considering I only planted 10 plants in total I did ummmmmm
very poorly.  the only good crop I had was one bush of toms.
The rhubarb died
cape gooseberry - Planted far too late and only got 2 edible fruits :cry:
My pepper was eaten by the dreaded slugs :evil:
and my strawberries was the worst crop I have ever had.
But now I have ny lottie hopefully I will have a better next year.

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« Reply #21 on: November 22, 2006, 13:37 »
Top three for me have to be

Cucumbers
Sweetcorn
Broadbeans


Bottom Three

Peas
Tomatos
Carrot

It was all edible and far tastier than the shop bought produce!
Enjoying the traditional ways and values of life.


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