H Guys and Gals
Well, joined not so long ago, never grew anything before, and now I have, in a, now very, small raised bed lol.
For our first attempt we planted:
From seed: Mixture of Herbs, Radish, Spring onions, Normal onions, Cos lettuce, Iceberg lettuce, Chilli, Tomato and Pumpkins
Reduced plants from B&Q: Cauli, Carrots, Brussels, and Strawberries
First to come through was the radishes, me and the kids were so chuffed, cut the first one into 3 so we could share it hee hee
Spring Onions are doing great, especially mixed with somt Tuna and Mayo, and took advice from here by sowing every 2 weeks
Lettuces - Cos didn't do so well, got to about tennis ball sized then went mushy, and Iceberg is now about 2 foot tall
Had an unexpected death in the family a month ago so didn't get chance to keep an eye on things as much as I'd have liked so think it's officially 'bolted'?
Normal Onions are growing well I think - wish there was such a thing as clear soil
The stems are still green and are looking nice and thick, but nothing's visible yet
Garlic.... put 6 cloves in about may time, after reading other posts on here realised I'd done them at the wrong time, but the stems are lovely and green and appear to be thriving, so I thought I'd pull one up and see how it was looking under there... 3 beautiful cloves had actually formed, not very big, but very very powerful! Can't wait now till the leaves start going brown so I can harvest them properly
2 of the 4 Cauli's now have golf ball sized heads, so have protected them with the outer leaves
Carrots aren't due to be pulled till end of August/September, but again, curiosity was killing us - pulled one up and it was the size of a chardonnay one
bit green inside and a bit bitter, but still very exciting stuff
Chilli plants are just all leaves at the moment, but are nice and strong, so not too worried just yet, although I have found some caterpillars on them
Pumpkins are confusing me - all the male flowers (the ones with the fruit?) have opened and are now dying off, just as the female flowers are starting to bud. Keeping a daily eye on these, armed with a soft paintbrush just in case I manage to get to pollinate them as there is a distinct shortage of bees
Tomatoes have just this week started flowering, so am hopeful 3 plants will be plenty enough as I'm the only one that eats them unless they're cunningly disguised in spag bol
Brussels are about a foot and a half (in old money) high at the moment
Strawberries have been and gone, a little dissapointed in them as we only had about 5 from 4 plants - but I blame myself for that, don't think I watered them enough, but getting lovely strong runners off them and am using aelf's milk carton design to pot them up
So all in all, very very happy.
Still loving the site, and all the advice and pointers make for interesting reading, so thanks guys
Chris x