What has been your biggest success this year

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Rangerkris

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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2009, 06:21 »
For my first years growing i would say my runners and dwarf french beans have been great.
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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #16 on: September 03, 2009, 06:46 »
Raspberries, about 75 lb of them so far, still coming, but obviously dwindling now.

Oh - and 14 nice sized pumpkins from 3 plants that I stuck in with no manure & just left to it.
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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #17 on: September 03, 2009, 09:18 »
Spuds, swede, french beans and carrots.  Hopefully my parsnips will be great too
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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #18 on: September 03, 2009, 09:56 »
My large range of beans, all being grown for the shelled beans and all drying on the plants just about now.

Kestrel spuds - lovely.

And my heritage winter squashes grown for seed saving; including some lovely orange pumpkins.

And the rasps that I thought were dead aren't.  :D

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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #19 on: September 03, 2009, 10:45 »
our white onions have  been great also very pleased with cabbage ,and dwarf beans(over 2lb every week from june til bout a week ago) my gardeners delight toms are lovely and leeks are doing great so over all am chuffed with this years crops so far :)

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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #20 on: September 03, 2009, 10:50 »

potatoes and sweetcorn for me, haven't tasted the pumpkins yet but am amazed by how big they are getting, can't wait for pumpkin soup and pie  :D

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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #21 on: September 03, 2009, 12:01 »
Marrows, onion from seed, spuds, sweetcorn and chillis :)

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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #22 on: September 03, 2009, 12:09 »
My large range of beans, all being grown for the shelled beans and all drying on the plants just about now.

Kestrel spuds - lovely.

And my heritage winter squashes grown for seed saving; including some lovely orange pumpkins.

And the rasps that I thought were dead aren't.  :D

Agree with that, I really liked them and will definitely grow them again next year.

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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #23 on: September 03, 2009, 13:23 »
After years of "blown"brussels i think im finally going to get a decent crop,just needed undug soil i think.
My carrots have been very good this year as well.

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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #24 on: September 03, 2009, 13:51 »
A bumper crop of Roma tomatoes!  I've sun-dried them in the oven, make tomato pepper relish, and tomato sauce with them and they are STILL coming in fast and furious.  I am over the moon!  Our potatoes were excellent this year and tasted like what I remember from childhood.  Pure heaven!   ;)
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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #25 on: September 03, 2009, 14:41 »
I grew successfully this year cauliflower!

Sweetheart cabbage the size of rugby balls!

Savoy cabbage the size of basketballs!

All in a 6 metre square bed using compost from my compost heap, Sulphate of of Ammonia and Bonemeal!

Dead chuffed ;)
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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #26 on: September 03, 2009, 15:35 »
spuds a plenty.
cougettes coming out of my ears.
Khol rabi looking really good.
runner beans by the hundred
1 big pumpkin
2 big sunflowers.
Onions ready to go
slightly dirty but nice celery.
Carrots still going strong.
Beetroot still being harvested.
peas, freezer full.
French beans, got big while we weren't watching.

All in all, and in the words of ol' blue eyes, ' it was a very good year!'  :D
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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #27 on: September 03, 2009, 15:39 »
for me - spuds, onions, beet, shallots and turnip. everything else has been so so due to me being very late planting.

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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #28 on: September 03, 2009, 16:10 »
I have been dodo this year but the veg has tried its best despite having one very bad owner.  ???

GOOD
Tomato
Cucumber
Potato
Courgette (as always)
Broadbeans - never enough!
Plums - we are drowning under them
Figs
Eggs a plenty
Beetroot and artichoke - quality but not quantity
Strawberries were nice
Kohl Rabi - interesting sculpture - but not sure about culinary value
Squash and pumpkins - on their way.

BAD
Who ate all the gooseberries?
And all the blackcurrants and raspberries?
Fennel and lettuces bolted to the sky
Purple cabbage and broccoli (why do I ever even try with brassicas?)
Sad sweetcorns
Bad naughty moolis, carrots and radishes

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Re: What has been your biggest success this year
« Reply #29 on: September 03, 2009, 16:36 »
Broad beans!!! millions of 'em  :wacko:
We lived for days on nothing but food and water.


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