Dont get excited I'm talking fruit and veg rather than hydroponics and funny smelling lofts.
For the first time this year we have grown potatoes, runner beans, marrow, corn, leeks and carrots.
The leeks and carrots weren't successful but the potatoes in particular and the rest were.
Tonight me and my eldest who is four dug our potatoes and pulled off beans and corn for our tea. You can't get fresher than that. She is learning and it's good quality happy time together.
There are lots of negative posts around lately - so I thought I'd post an upbeat one!
I'm actually a bit gutted that we won't have anything in the winter.
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Recently I dug potatoes out in my boss' garden. She gave me a load to take home and after washing, chopping and shoving in the oven they were lovely chips. The idea of growing your own food and seeing every step is quite satisfying.
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Pidgeons and slugs are the bane of my life. They'll pick my veg patch clean if you let them.
We grow some veg at work - helps to encourage people to cook from scratch, teaches responsibility and has an educational value. ( I work with young adults withe autism).
If I'm honest I don't think I could say the spuds taste better - I doubt I'd pass a blind test with supermarket ones.
I read that homegrown corn tastes particularly nice and sweet assuming you harvest and eat quickly. Apparently the sugar starts turning to starch as soon as you remove it from the plant...
I put in raised beds and built a greenhouse this year and have grown potatoes, peas, carrots, runner beans and tomatoes. The tomatoes were my neighbour's legacy to me having been originally gotten by his grandfather from the Canary Islands in 1848. They were never grown commercially, so I have carried the torch for Len's tomatoes this year and plan to keep the strain going.
I've started on growing herbs too with Rosemary, Basil, Mint and Oregano currently on the go.
The great thing is (apart from great tasting food) that it's something that my wife and I do together, which is nice.
Over winter we're going to plant some more broad beans, onions and garlic which generally does well.
The allotment was youngest daughter's idea then she went off to uni and left us with it.
Home grown tomatoes tend to be a lot more flavoursome than anything I've bought in a shop.
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We have tried every thing from almost desert like soil through to the smelliest horse poo ridden soil.
The plant grows for a few weeks and then just dies.
Yes our neighbour has a huge well established plant in the same spot.
the birds eat all the cherries
Lots of apples though within a year, very nice and near-zero maintenance.
We have 2 old plum-type trees, one gives lovely sweet plums, which the birds eat. I got one plum this year
The other produces something like green gauges, which litter the floor until they are cleared or rotting, when they then get eaten by alcoholic foxes I assume
Yup. A fuckton of potatoes. I have a sackfull and have only harvested about 20%. Also far too many tomatoes so I'm going to have to do some long-term storage. I have a lot of massive courgettes too but I've managed to palm a few off on people.
Plenty of onions but they'll all get used. Chard. Beetroot. Leeks (if it's the same as last year I'll just leave them over winter and they'll be fine in spring).
Had some rocket and spinach earlier in the year but they bolted super-quickly. I think it's just too hot in the south for them. And my carrots came out like sticks of wood.
Yes, fresh corn is excellent.