Great thread this,
As some of you may know we wrecked a beautiful ornamemtal garden with lots of lawn bushes trees rockerie etc to have a vegetable garden and chicken garden.
Do we regret it??/ Like hell we do
As this was our first year of ever growing veg in our lives it was a great year as everything was new to us.
Taking into account that we rotivated the garden at the end of May so everything was late planted or sown.
Here is what we grew:-
Carrots --- all weird curly shapes small and had by the root fly -------- cheaper to buy in the supermarket
Broccoli ------- seeds planted and I am still waiting for them to show their heads above the soil ------- they obviously didn't work
Second ealry potatoes Maris Peer ---------- quite a few from what we planted and beautifil taste ---- will def plant them again.
Maincrop potatoes Desiree ------------- another good yeild and some monster sized potatoes --------- will def plant then again
Cabbages --------- all had catterpilla holes but they were not wasted as they were all eaten by our 7 chickens who thought every day was their birthdays.
Sprouts -------- just picked them today and there are loads of them.
Beetroot lettuce radish all produced loads and I am still growing some in the green house.
Raspberries although produced quite a few they were all breaking up easily and I found that the chickens like them too :blink:
Goosberries were poor Rhubarb was first year so left that alone.
Tomatoes quite good and still got loads coming in the greenhouse but taking ages to go red.
Runner beans and Dwarf French beans were fab though our munt frame was collapsing towards the end.
Swedes are still in the ground but not what I was hoping for seems lots of us have had problems with these.
Leeks still in the ground but have been picking the odd few for a stew and they are amazing in taste if not in size.
Can't think if there was anything else. Oh nearly forgot the tons of apples our neighbours let us have that I stewed and froze and there are still loads of apples we can have just got no room in the freezer now lol.
Roll on next year :happy: :happy: