Grow Your Own Fruit or Veg

[LSainsbury]

Anybody growing fruit or veg this year?

At the moment on the patio we've got on the go:

Potatoes x 2
Cucumber Plant
Chilli Plant
Tomatos x 2

The potatoes are in sack planters and one looks like it's gone mad!!

I'll post some photos later!

[Osem]

Yup

16 tomoato plants
2 apple trees (Braeburn and Bramley)
1 plum tree (Victoria)
1 pear tree (Conference)
1 cherry tree
20 strawberry plants
chives/garlic chives
mint - several varieties
rosemary
sage
basil

[peanut]

The missus has an allotment, so got loads growing at the moment.

It's her second year now at it, a lot of hard work but keeps her fit and healthy. Got everything from chillies to pumpkins, spuds galore, herb garden, leeks, garlics etc you name it. It's going well at the moment, and she's always coming back with bag fulls of veg and stuff. Can't beat it, tastes a lot better too.

[papa smurf]

i used to have an allotment but gave it up due to constant vandalism ,and the fact our gready council charge over £100 p/a ... i only have a small concrete yard but i grow 12 tomato plants in troughs that are on my walls , chilie plants in troughs on the fence and herbs in window boxes and buckets . and runner beans up the back fence [the're in buckets of compost ] where theres a will theres a way

[peanut]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

i used to have an allotment but gave it up due to constant vandalism ,and the fact our gready council charge over £100 p/a ... i only have a small concrete yard but i grow 12 tomato plants in troughs that are on my walls , chilie plants in troughs on the fence and herbs in window boxes and buckets . and runner beans up the back fence [the're in buckets of compost ] where theres a will theres a way

Over £100 a year is a lot, I think we pay about £35 and it's in an area that's well out of the way but only a 5 minute walk so hardly any interfence. The ones in the town aren't that good, things are always getting nicked from those ones obviously.

The commarderie is excellent, even if every crop fails she'd still come back with bag fulls.

It's good for us as we don't have a garden so it's a good substitute, saying that our window sills are starting to resemble a small garden at the moment.

[papa smurf]

there are about 350 vacant allotmens on this site there just to expencive but the council wont budge on the price, so there are acres of empty allotment spaces

[peanut]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

there are about 350 vacant allotmens on this site there just to expencive but the council wont budge on the price, so there are acres of empty allotment spaces

That's a shame as some places have quite a few years waiting list just to get one.

[Taf]

cayenne chillis
prairie fire chillis
tomatoes
tumbling tomatoes
sweet peppers
little gem lettuce
giant cabbage
basil
thyme
mints
bay
cobra climbing french beans
yard long beans
potatoes
onions
garlic
blackcurrants
redcurrants
blueberries
tayberries
raspberries
blackberries
asparagus
kiwi
naked kiwi
courgette
pumpkin
cucumber
short cucumber
radish
apples
cherries
strawberries
alpine strawberries
grapes (black and white)
passion fruit

no shallots this year... ran out of space in my little garden

[Halcyon]

Apples, a few herbs, thyme, parsley, chives, not done many this year.
It's too late for me to get some tomatoes in I think.

[Hugh]

Cooking apples
Plums
Various herbs (mmmmm, fresh herbs)
Strawberries

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Apples, a few herbs, thyme, parsley, chives, not done many this year.
It's too late for me to get some tomatoes in I think.

to late for growing from seed but lots of gardeners sell plants at the roadside or theres allways garden centers , or your local paper .

[LSainsbury]

Originally Posted by Taf

cayenne chillis
prairie fire chillis

....

passion fruit

no shallots this year... ran out of space in my little garden

That's loads!!

Next year I'll do a lot more - we moved in Feb so it was a bit difficult this year!

[Tinky]

I love our garden, and although it is a fair size, we keep our allotment down to a manageable size. Nevertheless we have runner beans, dwarf yellow beans, rhubarb, carrots, cabbage. In the greenhouse 7 different types of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, courgettes and lettuce.

[Woolly One]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

there are about 350 vacant allotmens on this site there just to expencive but the council wont budge on the price, so there are acres of empty allotment spaces

To which the Council will put forward the case for selling the land to developers. Then hey presto - they'll be growing block of flats!

Anyway - We've got
Strawberries
Blackcurrants
Blackberries
Cherry & pear trees
and the usual Raspberry canes (growing like mad!).

Plenty of Raspberry Vodka this year

[LSainsbury]

Ahh yeah - we have 4 runner bean plants on the go - but think one of them may not make it...