Anyone growing any veg this year?

Claireack

stuckinline wrote:

this is the old gardening thread:

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=95258&hilit=garden

Thanks for that - knew I remembered somthing.

loveontwolegs wrote:

I supplement my garden with a CSA Share during the growing months too.

What's a CSA? Is it a bit like our allotment?

loadedgun

Trying them all from seeds this year:
Jalapenos, Green & red bell peppers, cucumber, squash, gourds, cilantro.
The cucumbers are really taking off already. Much quicker than everything else.

The wife gets her tomato plants already started from the store, so we'll have those as well.
Plus whatever else I might run acroos.

loveontwolegs

[quote="Claireack
What's a CSA? Is it a bit like our allotment?[/quote]

Not sure what your allotment is?

CSA stands for community supported agriculture. You buy a "share" or the local farmer's crops to get delivered to you. It is really awesome to know the farmer actually growing your stuff.

Once a week I get a produce box filled with whatever was harvested that week. Then, once a month I get meat and pantry goods (flour, cornmeal, honey) all locally grown and raised.

Gonna try my hand at canning fruits and veggies this year.

Claireack

loveontwolegs wrote:

[quote="Claireack
What's a CSA? Is it a bit like our allotment?

Not sure what your allotment is?

CSA stands for community supported agriculture. You buy a "share" or the local farmer's crops to get delivered to you. It is really awesome to know the farmer actually growing your stuff.

Once a week I get a produce box filled with whatever was harvested that week. Then, once a month I get meat and pantry goods (flour, cornmeal, honey) all locally grown and raised.

Gonna try my hand at canning fruits and veggies this year.[/quote]

That's a really good idea.

Our allotment is council land that we rent and can grow stuff on. There are some allotments that you're allowed to keep chickens etc on. Don't think I want to go there though.

We've still got courgettes in our freezer from last year, never thought about canning.

autumn

I'm gardening in my backyard again. This year I'll (hopefully) be growing kohlrabi, tomatoes (they really are sooo much better straight from the garden), snow peas, eggplant, english cucumbers, peppers, asparagus, and I'm going to try quinoa for the first time.
I'm also growing a garden with my class. We're growing "salad". It includes lettuce, carrots, radish, cucumber and cherry tomatoes. They are so excited! We have a worm compost bin and lots of great fetilizer from it. I have warned them that just because you plant it, doesn't mean it will come to fruition. Let's hope it all works out *fingers crossed*!

mickeyrat

is that what the kids are calling it these days?

tinkerbell

Over summer I grew lettuce, potatoes (all year round), peas, strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes (still got heaps on the vines), tried growing capsicum but they failed.

Now my garden is overgrown with potatoes and pumpkins (looks like I'll be making lots of soup). During autumn and winter our patch doesn't get much sun so doesn't do too well.

JaneNY

We'll be planting, but its a good two months yet before we can safely plant most things. We can get a frost right up until June 1st, so no tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, etc. before then. My husband always plants too much zucchini, and I don't even like it. Fortunately he has a lot of friends he gives it to.

Claireack

Zucchini is a courgette?? We had masses last year and it's not my favourite veg, but we got a soup recipe and it was fantastic! I may not be a courgette fan in some forms but courgette soup is now one of my favourites.

stuckinline

I grow veggies in a community garden. It will be a few months before I can plant anything.

tinkerbell

Claireack wrote:

Zucchini is a courgette?? We had masses last year and it's not my favourite veg, but we got a soup recipe and it was fantastic! I may not be a courgette fan in some forms but courgette soup is now one of my favourites.

Yum I love cougettes. I've never heard of courgette soup though, can you post the recipe or PM it to me pretty please

Claireack

Sorry tink, I've only just seen this.

This is off the top of my head;

1lb of chopped up courgettes
1 onion.
1 pint veg stock
1/2 tub creme fraiche
Salt & pepper to taste

Gently fry the onions and courgettes until soft, add the stock and simmer for about 10-15 mins. Whizz up with one of those hand held choppy up things. Stir in the creme fraiche, salt and pepper to taste. It really quick and easy to make and tastes yummy.

Quiet week at the allotment this week. The weather has been a bit wet so haven't been able to go up so much. However, pretty much of all of it is dug over now, just one small bed that has the strawberries in to do. We've put edging on what we want as paths and put a bit of a fence up one side as someone keeps parking there and we don't want them accidently driving on our plants. We could do with lifting up the shed a bit, it's got a bit damp over the winter, but I think that can probably wait a bit.

The weather today started off miserably, but perked up this afternoon - unfortunately I was working, which was very frustrating as I just kept thinking about being about outside. Maybe the dry weather will continue until tomorrow

lillwild1

We grow tomatoes, cucumbers, and basil. Then we make pickles, can tomato sauce, and make our own pesto.

Claireack

lillwild1 wrote:

We grow tomatoes, cucumbers, and basil. Then we make pickles, can tomato sauce, and make our own pesto.

I think I should pickle something this year. Not sure what though.

Damn, just realised forgot all about Spring onions, rather like them and have no seeds planted. Mmmmm, must get onto that.

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My wife and I are going to give a garden a try this year for the first time....here's goes nothing.

Claireack

indybright wrote:

My wife and I are going to give a garden a try this year for the first time....here's goes nothing.

morello

Oooh, silly me for missing this thread. I'm big-time vege gardener, have been for years, since my uni days actually & my garden has been going fabulously this summer! I'm growing more veg than I can eat & will be doing some bottling today. I've copied your courgette soup recipe claireack & might give that a go today too as I got 2 marrows off my courgette plants yesterday!
Currently, I'm picking tomatoes, courgettes(zucchini), beans(green runner, french, purple & butter), capsicums(peppers), mesclun salad greens, pumpkins, silverbeet(swiss chard).... + I have many herbs. My asparagus & potatoes have finished & I have eggplants(aubergine) still coming on & broccoli & beetroot coming on for winter.
I love my garden & it'll be great to talk with fellow 10c gardeners!!

Claireack

Ooooo Morello, that sounds fantastic!!

We've just put our first lot of potatoes in, will have to keep an eye out for late frost though. French beans are also in with a fantastic teepee made by hubby for them to grow on.

I think this thread needs pictures, I will have to get onto it :think:

markymark550

I planted some pole beans and cucumbers on Monday. I'm going to plant some sunflowers in the next week or so (although I'm not certain on how to harvest the seeds :?).

Hopefully they all turn out well. I wish I had more land to be able to have a proper garden...

Claireack

markymark550 wrote:

I planted some pole beans and cucumbers on Monday. I'm going to plant some sunflowers in the next week or so (although I'm not certain on how to harvest the seeds :?).

Hopefully they all turn out well. I wish I had more land to be able to have a proper garden...

I saw advertised today a bag thing that you hang up and the tomatoes grow out the bottom. That would be quite handy in a small space