A bit late but a Happy New Year to you all.
I just wonder what your experiences were last year in the vegetable garden?
I have to say I actually managed to have a decent vegetable garden last year (here in Belgium) in spite of all the stress, drought, …
The shops were all shut down to start with so I used all my seeds left over from 2019.
One of the gardeners decided his neighbours from two doors up were joining us. Which meant that together with the drought and the crisis preventing anyone going away on holiday the water barrels were soon depleted.
Amazingly enough, thanks to mulching with straw, my plot looked quite handsome.
I had always transplanted lettuces before (as when I tried with seeds they were immediately gobbled up by the slugs) but I had no option to have a go with some old "Four Seasons" lettuce seed I had bought on a whim. They were marvellous. They were not attacked at all and I was able to transplant some of them or just cut them down to the soil and they would soon spring back (maybe it is the slight reddish tint that deters the slugs). And they tasted and felt almost like butterheads).
I ordered some potatoes online (from a Belgian company) and it took two months for them to arrive in Belgium (from Scotland via Holland, for some strange reason).
I didn't expect much because I had no fertiliser and it hardly rained for two months but when I dug the potatoes up they were the biggest ones I had ever seen (must be all the Scots porridge) and very tasty as well. I had never heard of them before. They are called Wilja. They are second earlies.
Happy gardening to you all.