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By *ickshawed OP Couple
over a year ago
Wolverhampton |
Do you grow many fruits and vegetables in your garden/balcony/window box?
How are they doing? Do the birds get them, do you get a nice crop, or just enough for a little snack?
Our rhubarb died this year and the tomato plants aren't doing much.
But our redcurrants, gooseberries and blueberries are doing well. We should get a few strawberries and raspberries, but only enough for a snack. Plus I think we might get quite a lot of French beans.
We have the redcurrants behind a net to stop the birds and have to be quick to beat them to the blueberries, but they don't touch the gooseberries.
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" Rhubarb †
Thank you, it means a lot. And I blooming love rhubarb crumble as well  "
Same. It's a shame that rhubarb might not grow here for much longer as it likes the cold. It actually came from Russia, yet 90% of its consumption happens in the UK |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Wouldn’t call myself a “grower” more a experimentalist….. in the past I have grown or attempted to grow..
Melon
Green pepper
Birdseye chilli
Peanuts
Strawberries
The melons were a waste of time
The Peppers didn’t get bigger than a mouthful (don’t like them anyway)
Strawberries - meh
The chilli were brilliant, must have got close to a hundred in the first year! But I don’t like them either
And the peanuts were extraordinary, had to have extra little pots placed around the main pot of the shoots to bury themselves in
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We started off with a wild strawberry flown in wih the birds. Now they're like s and so many strawberries, we leave most for the birds. Must've been because it was a wild one??? Sweet even when big. |
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Been growing micro herbs this year and so easy even I can't kill them. Brilliant for throwing over salads and basically anything. Tasty too.
Dont need much room to grow them either and if plan right can have steady supply all year round. |
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By *ickshawed OP Couple
over a year ago
Wolverhampton |
" Rhubarb †
Thank you, it means a lot. And I blooming love rhubarb crumble as well
Same. It's a shame that rhubarb might not grow here for much longer as it likes the cold. It actually came from Russia, yet 90% of its consumption happens in the UK"
How annoying. What happened with yours? Ours started to grow, put out a few leaves, but they turned red and then brown.
I should probably check our soil isn't absolutely deadly for rhubarb before I try again. Though it grew fine last year |
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I'm an allotment grower. Every season brings new pests & diseases. Slugs are enemy No.1. Garlic and shallots already lifted and drying. First potatoes dug, strawberries and raspberries daily. Everything else growing like hell in this heat. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’ve got a greenhouse I’m growing a few varieties of tomato, cucumbers and cantaloupe melon peppers and jalapeños. I have an avocado tree and one about to start growing. About 8 sweet peas growing outside on the trellis |
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By *ickshawed OP Couple
over a year ago
Wolverhampton |
"I don't really get the rhubarb thing just never liked it, my wife grows and eats it all the time but the amount of sweetener I see her pouring in don't think it can be too healthy."
It's delicious. I don't add any sweetener. Just cut it up, cover it in crumble mix and stick it in the oven for half an hour. Really nice with custard as it takes a bit of the tartness away. But I'll happily smother it in double cream instead. As in life, most things are better covered in cream |
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Just harvested first 2 bags of new potatoes, first garlic, mange tout, lollo rosso and baby leaves have been munched.
Got lots this year in small space.
All in raised beds and planters. Made from recycled site waste by myself. Saved a fortune .  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't really get the rhubarb thing just never liked it, my wife grows and eats it all the time but the amount of sweetener I see her pouring in don't think it can be too healthy."
OMG. Pull, peel, eat. It;s the only way to go |
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By *ack688Man
over a year ago
abruzzo Italy (and UK) |
I had an allotment when I still lived in the U.K. and had varying degrees of success and failure with all manner of fruit and veg, so then when I moved here to a house with lots of land it was great to have fruit trees and plant lots of current and berry bushes as well as all the veg that the Mediterranean climate was so good for, but again still lots of successes and failures over the years but now I live in a town house with no garden and mostly tend other peoples fruit trees! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Rhubarb is a bit of a let down this year. Maybe my fault as they love manure, I didn't feed any. Gooseberries are great this year as always. Chillis are coming along nicely. Cucumbers flowering, Lots of apples on the mini tree with lettuce below. Grapes are getting bigger. All looking good at the moment. Lots more seedlings to put out. Gonna be a good year me thinks  |
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By *ickshawed OP Couple
over a year ago
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"I’ve got a greenhouse I’m growing a few varieties of tomato, cucumbers and cantaloupe melon peppers and jalapeños. I have an avocado tree and one about to start growing. About 8 sweet peas growing outside on the trellis "
My dad always grew sweet peas for my mum when I was little as they're her favourite flowers, but they always ended up covered in greenfly so we couldn't bring them into the house. Do yours smell good? |
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Strawberries and tomatoes this years. Most years I grow courgettes and beans but haven’t this year.
I’ve tried to grow flowers from seeds this year.
Varying success with Cosmos, Lavendar, Lobelia, Candula and Nasturtium. |
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"Strawberries and tomatoes this years. Most years I grow courgettes and beans but haven’t this year.
I’ve tried to grow flowers from seeds this year.
Varying success with Cosmos, Lavendar, Lobelia, Candula and Nasturtium. "
I’ve also grown a walnut tree from a nut that I actually dug up in the garden, squirrels I guess. Anyway it’s two years in a pot and doing brilliant. |
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"Strawberries and tomatoes this years. Most years I grow courgettes and beans but haven’t this year.
I’ve tried to grow flowers from seeds this year.
Varying success with Cosmos, Lavendar, Lobelia, Candula and Nasturtium. "
You can eat Nasturtium flowers, they go well in salads and are slightly spicy |
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"Rhubarb is a bit of a let down this year. Maybe my fault as they love manure, I didn't feed any. Gooseberries are great this year as always. Chillis are coming along nicely. Cucumbers flowering, Lots of apples on the mini tree with lettuce below. Grapes are getting bigger. All looking good at the moment. Lots more seedlings to put out. Gonna be a good year me thinks "
I feed my potted rhubarb with compost from a tomato bag instead of manure and it loves it |
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This year:
Carrots
Parsnips
Radishes
Strawberries
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Peas
Last year I tried similar but forgot about them and they all rotted. I’ll let you know how the harvest goes in a couple of weeks.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I grew corn on the cob last year. When it was ready picked it cooked it covered it in proper anchor butter ( other butters are available ) and it bloomin marvellous best cob I’ve ever had. Can’t beat the freshest of fresh. |
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