This week in your Kitchen Garden.

[mx wcfc]

Looks like a cucamelon?

It is, yes. Definately tastes of cucumber, and she was told that was what it was a type of (she was given a bunch of seedlings by someone else at the allotments)

 

[iona]

It is, yes. Definately tastes of cucumber, and she was told that was what it was a type of (she was given a bunch of seedlings by someone else at the allotments)

I think they're one of those things that keep getting reclassified. Definitely related, anyway.

 

[VivaE]

Phwoar

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I'm so jealous of your gooseberries. I want them. All of them. Now.

 

[Ron Merlin]

Toms today

 

[newme]

I wish mine were that organised, I missed a few vital points about directing the things the right way and now it looks rather like a nest of the things. Whole load have got skin bound and cracked. Keep trying to clear it a bit then you flip the stem over and tada 20 surprise tomatoes. I have a load of yellow and green courgettes and no one here eats them except the parrot and I doubt they will get through them all, ones now about 1.5ft long.
All the beans failed, peas failed, sweet and spicy peppers failed, carrots and onions failed, the french radishes worked great, then I forgot I had picked them. Strawberries worked ok but just very low yield, Beetroot worked fine but I'm still working out what to do with those. Loads of Rainbow Chard tho it crowded the lettuce patch and made it grow weird after I got a few loads off the lettuce. Tomatoes have spread into other beds? Took over the pea patch thats also in a poly and 15ft away, plus theres now some in the red clover patch.

Taking my eye off the ball was definitely a problem, need a better routine for it and definitely something for things to climb next year.

 

[RubyToogood]

I finally had my first and possibly only courgette for dinner today.

Having a fairly bumper crop of apples. I thinned them out quite a bit to try and stop them being biennial and they just grew enormous instead and a bit tasteless so it may have been wasted effort.

 

[newme]

No banana so tennis ball for scale. Now if I knew anyone who wanted a courgette that would be useful.

 

[oxygenthief]

Apologies for going a bit Facebook,

First salad entirely from the garden.

This has been the worst year growing stuff in the eight we've been here

 

[RubyToogood]

Apologies for going a bit Facebook,

First salad entirely from the garden.

This has been the worst year growing stuff in the eight we've been here

I think it's been the worst in the 30 years I've been here! Except for the bumper crops of blackcurrants and apples. The runner beans and courgette (singular) had just started to get going and now they're packing up.

 

[newme]

Apologies for going a bit Facebook,

First salad entirely from the garden.

This has been the worst year growing stuff in the eight we've been here

Is kind of the point of the thread! I'm hoping year 3 will be when I get some stuff I can actually use to make something like that.

 

[oxygenthief]

I think it's been the worst in the 30 years I've been here! Except for the bumper crops of blackcurrants and apples. The runner beans and courgette (singular) had just started to get going and now they're packing up.

We did well with blackcurrants too, 6 litres of blackcurrant vodka, currantly (see what I did there) maturing.
In other news, I noticed the other day that something was nicking my peas so I set up a trailcam. We may have id'd the perp.

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[RubyToogood]

I've just put in some chard and broccoli. More in hope than expectation.

I've put little twig wigwams over them in the probably forlorn hope that they don't get sat on or weed on by fox/cat.

 

[oxygenthief]

I've just put in some chard and broccoli. More in hope than expectation.

I've put little twig wigwams over them in the probably forlorn hope that they don't get sat on or weed on by fox/cat.

Don't know if it's soil or me, but, apart from kale I can't grow brassicas.

I find that chucking a load of holly or rose clippings around fresh plantings keeps the cat off.

 

[RubyToogood]

Don't know if it's soil or me, but, apart from kale I can't grow brassicas.

I find that chucking a load of holly or rose clippings around fresh plantings keeps the cat off.

Good tip.

 

[Oriole]

Mrs mx’s allotment, rather than our kitchen garden.

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Actually very nice.

Are they easy to grow? Do the need a lot of sun?

 

[mx wcfc]

Are they easy to grow? Do the need a lot of sun?

She was given the seedlings, and grew them in a greenhouse. We've got hundreds of the things, so I guess they're not difficult.

 

[Idaho]

Suprise late allotment bounty. All Columbian exchange.

 

[The39thStep]

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Suprise late allotment bounty. All Columbian exchange.

Beautiful aubergines. Growing season is just starting again here after the hot summer where its very difficult to get anything to survive in the heat.

 

[VivaE]

I was looking for a suitable thread to put this link on and a thread full of (surplus!) veggies and creative people seems as good a place as any.



Japaness artist Takehiro Kishimoto —also known as Gaku—has mastered this craft. His Instagram feed is filled with incredible photos and videos of the fish, dragons, and birds he crafts from produce.

 

[Ron Merlin]

The carrots have only been growing for five months, but I thought I'd dig one up to see..


Seven inches long!

e2a silly pic for scale.

 

[iona]

Place I was at last year never even dug up any of the garlic I planted so I almost have more seed garlic than I know what to do with now. New plot isn't ready yet, so I'm giving some away and planting the rest up in fish boxes for now.

 

[Oriole]

They'll go i the lunchtime borscht

 

[Ron Merlin]

Lifted the rest of the carrots

 

[oxygenthief]

Finally got round to turning greenhouse chillies and red peppers into jam.

 

[maomao]

My broad beans and peas were very happy in the sun today and I got the biggest of my three hazel trees pruned which was a lot more difficult than pruning my blackcurrant bush at home.