Veg growing 2018

[TomatoTango]

Getting inundated with tomatoes at this point.

 

[Bootsy]

I took these photos of some of my chilli plants a month ago. I had about 100 plants but sell them and donate all the proceeds to charity.

Twenty of the plants are Naga chillies and are over 1 million on the Scoville scale. They're ordered each year by people from the Bangladeshi community and they're amongst the hottest in the world

The others are my own cross bred chillies and are very popular. They're hotter than Cayenne or Bird's Eye but not quite as hot as Scotch Bonnet. The advantage with them is that they are small plants and very prolific. some people buy them just as ornamental pot plants.

 

[Bootsy]

I went away for a one week holiday and, before going, picked all the zucchini. When I returned the plants had worked very hard and tried to grow all the produce into marrow!

I also grow a large amount of green beans. The three varieties of French bean have survived the heatwave fairly well and are giving me about 1lb of produce a day. The runner beans, a favourite in this country, are suffering in the heat. I grow a lot of them (also selling for charity) and by this time of year am usually picking about 10lb per day. Instead, it's down to about 5lb.

Plums, apples and pears are doing well but the blackberries are struggling at the moment.

 

[Leeski]

 

[Larisa]

All the peppers grew well. Now I can preserve it with zucchini and tomatoes.

But then some kind of creature came and ate only the Bulgarian peppers. I got the seeds of these peppers from a gardener who for many years grows it in his family. I do not know why the creature chose this pepper specifically.

 

[DirtMechanic]

All the peppers grew well. Now I can preserve it with zucchini and tomatoes.

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But then some kind of creature came and ate only the Bulgarian peppers. I got the seeds of these peppers from a gardener who for many years grows it in his family. I do not know why the creature chose this pepper specifically.


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Holy Cow! Awesome!

 

[DirtMechanic]

Winter garden is planted. Sugar peas, Beets, Tons of spinach, radish, carrots (I pray) Chard, some stuff I forgot like broccoli.

 

[vette-kid]

Winter garden is planted. Sugar peas, Beets, Tons of spinach, radish, carrots (I pray) Chard, some stuff I forgot like broccoli.
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You have a hard time with carrots too?

 

[DirtMechanic]

You have a hard time with carrots too?

I have learned about them on this site, but one thing about a winter garden is if you do not fertilize toward the end and you let poor soil rule, the roots do not split out like the arms of a starfish seeking top level nutrients because the taproot has to go down. Beyond that trivia, me growing carrots is risky behavior. My peas do not like fertility either, as they fix nitogen.

 

[MaryMary]

the roots do not split out like the arms of a starfish

That reminds me of the old Irish blessings.

May your roots split out like the arms of a starfish.

I think I'll steal it, use it as a signature line, and parade it around a bit!!