Proof that vegetable growing can be done by anybody. From a couple of under 30s – one who grew up growing and one who has just got going…
We said radishes were fast growing, and we weren't lying! We had our first harvest of these less than 6 weeks from sowing. Our beetroot are nearly there too now and we could probably start eating these any day now. We just need to wait until the weather improves a bit so we fancy salad!... Continue Reading →
Compared to some of the vegetables we're growing, brassicas are much more of a long game. Although these were sown back on 22 March, they're still not ready to harvest. Fingers crossed they are worth the wait, they usually are! As you can see, they're much larger than they were when we planted them out,... Continue Reading →
We now have two sowings of container courgettes planted out. The earlier sowing are doing tremendously well now they have got going, producing one courgette per plant every 2 days on average (depending on the weather of course). Here's one of our recent harvests! The plants are doing well in their containers, and we are... Continue Reading →
After a few weeks in their final destinations, our outdoor cucumbers needed a bit of tending to at the weekend. This is one of the Marketmore cucumbers which has almost reached the top of its cane and onto its wire mesh. We tied it in a couple of place along its stem to support it... Continue Reading →
The carrots we sowed in containers on 26 April are growing on well. None of the crops we have sown directly in containers are causing us too much trouble, they just need some water each day. It'll be a little while before these are ready yet, but they're a couple of inches tall now. As... Continue Reading →
We've mentioned before that successive sowings of crops is a great way to spread out the length of time you are able to enjoy a particular vegetable. It also hopefully prevents you having massive gluts of each vegetable where you find that you've got enough to be eating it three times a day, and then... Continue Reading →
As mentioned by Emily in an earlier blog post, I have also been having a go at growing tomatoes this year - although only one variety... Mimi are small 'cherry' like tomato, except they are yellow! It'll be interesting to see how mine differ from Emily's, but I'm largely following her advice, so I know... Continue Reading →
After a steady start, although still not the most vigorous plants, the strawberries are starting to produce fruit. Unfortunately a couple had already got pecks in from birds, so it was time to cover the plants with a net before we lost them all to our feathered friends! We made a simple frame up around... Continue Reading →
The 4 plants we started off in the polytunnel and moved outside last weekend are loving life so far! It's amazing how much they've grown in just 7 days. They've grown so much in fact, that we've had to tie them up this week. We tie the plants up to the stake every 4-6" to... Continue Reading →
Cucumbers can be quite demanding vegetables to grow, well compared to others we grow anyway. They don't like too much direct sunlight, too much water around their stem or too much wind when they're young plants, but once they've got going, outdoor cucumbers seem to be virtually invincible! So we'd recommend sticking with it, as... Continue Reading →
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