[Parrot]

Our plot was only born a month ago, but we have already munched on a few radishes and some baby rocket leaves.  

[Ann]

salad leaves
herbs (basil, lemon basil, thyme, sage)
a few strawberries
1 dozen blackcurrents (only planted the bush this year)

[lucywil]

lettuce
spring onion
radish
cabbage
peas
broad beans
strawberries (came home with 2.5 lbs on tuesday night!)

[hotterotter]

broad beans
garlic
sorrel
spinach
lettuce
Strawbs
4 cucumbers
New potatoes
Rhubarb (forced and normal)
purple peas
radishes
globe artichoke

[Growbag]

Strawberries
Carrot Parmex (grown in cold greenhouse from seeds this year)
Sugar snap peas
Kenyan Fine beans
Purple pod french beans
Courgettes
Lettuces - all sorts
Radishes
Hispi Cabbage
Marketmore cucumber
Wild Rocket
Oriental quick growing leaves
Pak Choi
Chives, Rosemary, Mint, Basil, Thyme all grown this season
Nasturtium leaves and flowers

[little sweetpeas]

Basil
Mint
Rocket
Watercress
Rosemary
Thyme
Flat leaf Parsley
Beetroot (last night)
Carrots
spinach
peas
broad beans
Raspberries (last night)
Strawberries
Blackcurrents (last night)
Rhubarb
salad leaves

Having now listed it all I hadn't realised how much we've already grown    

[Biscombe]

Oranges
Lemons
Tayberries
Artichoke
Cardoon (dont like this though, grows wild!)
Lots and lots of lettuce
carrots
Loads of herbs
Spuds
Leeks
Tomatoes 30-40 different varieties but only sungold, black cherry, 42 days and early girl are ripe
Onions
Runner beans are jut ready
French Beans
Snap Peas
Pepper lots on the way but eaten Tollies sweet
Chili (still green) lemon drop are ripe
Swiss Chard
Red & White cabbage
Kale
One courgette so far
Patty Pan (eaten about 4)
lots of winter squash coming along
edible flowers, borage, callendula, nastursiam
Radish (did really badly, were like rats tails!!!!)
Eaten lots af cauliflowers, all gone now
broccoli (2 only!!! got ravaged by swede midge!)
 


Wonder why I never have any time!!!!

[Beanzie]

Swiss Chard
Salad onions
Cabbage (grown under enviromesh)
lettuce
Rocket
Baby turnips (Atlantic)
Radish
Rhubarb
Mint
Chives
Strawberries

[The Dalai Farmer]

There you go!  My goodness, you learn a lot reading these forums!  I thought you kept parsnips till after the first frosts because they had a really long growing season and it was a way of telling they were ready!

Isn't it amazing that I can have got this blooming old (54 tomorrow) when everything I thought I "knew" is actually completely wrong!

We started eating Broad Beans three weeks ago!  Good stuff, pig poo!

[The Dalai Farmer]

Oranges
Lemons
Tayberries
Artichoke
Cardoon (dont like this though, grows wild!)
Lots and lots of lettuce
carrots
Loads of herbs
Spuds
Leeks
Tomatoes 30-40 different varieties but only sungold, black cherry, 42 days and early girl are ripe
Onions
Runner beans are jut ready
French Beans
Snap Peas
Pepper lots on the way but eaten Tollies sweet
Chili (still green) lemon drop are ripe
Swiss Chard
Red & White cabbage
Kale
One courgette so far
Patty Pan (eaten about 4)
lots of winter squash coming along
edible flowers, borage, callendula, nastursiam
Radish (did really badly, were like rats tails!!!!)
Eaten lots af cauliflowers, all gone now
broccoli (2 only!!! got ravaged by swede midge!)
 


Wonder why I never have any time!!!!

Being in Beautiful Spain while I sit here and watch the blinkin' rain is CHEATING!!          

[WG.]

Isn't it amazing that I can have got this blooming old (54 tomorrow) when everything I thought I "knew" is actually completely wrong!

We started eating Broad Beans three weeks ago!  Good stuff, pig poo!

   

Another one for you then ... go easy with the pig manure since it contains much more copper than any other.  An accumulation of copper in the soil can be a problem.

[The Dalai Farmer]

Why thank you, Sir!  I shall bear this in mind - especially since we keep sheep, too!

BTW, is it the same with horse and/or chicken poo?

Oh, what a graceful conversation!!

 :oops:

[WG.]

Graceful it is ... it has taken the wife many years to get me to call it manure!  Poo just ain't in my vocabulary.

Copper is added to commercial pig food as a growth promoter - see http://www.thepigsite.com/pighealth/article/471/copper  Might not be a problem with muck from your own pigs.

Horse dung : general use - best stuff I know for worm farming (except after you've treated horses for intestinal worms)

Sheep dung : general use but also makes a potent brew for feeding tomatoes.  Hessian sackful into a barrel of water and leave it for 3 or 4 weeks.

Chicken sh*t for activating the compost heap.   Layer it with wet waste straw or bedding straw & your heap just might hit 85 degs C

[The Dalai Farmer]

Wow!  I'm so impressed!  However do you know this stuff?  I've read books and talked to old blokes in flat caps, attempted to grow me own, joined two seperate forums and had absolutely no idea how much I didn't know!

AAAnyway, my pigs have only organic, "rare breed" nuts and fruit and veg from a local shop, so they probably have top quality poo.  

Good news about chicken poo, too, we have an ongoing supply of poo/straw mix that, apparently is going to be more useful than it has previously been!

Thank you so much for being so generous with your knowledge and time!

PEE-ESS - There's a website for blinkin' EVERYTHING!  www.pigsite.com indeed!

[DD.]

You'll come to find out that WG's head is just full of it.